Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bigwigs liked the air at White Pine Camp. It made them talk. Most of them came away whooping for Mr. Coolidge as president in 1928. Among the visitors last week were: Edsel Ford, who told the President how he and his father Henry were going to speckle the air with new type planes (see AERONAUTICS). Said young Mr. Ford: "If business conditions continue good I believe there will be a widespread demand by the people for the renomination of the President." Richard Washburn Child, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy, who is firmly convinced that "public opinion will brush...
...White Pine Camp, President Coolidge and Secretary Davis (of War) discussed moving the two big TNT storehouses near Baltimore and Camp Raritan, N. J., to the great waste places in Utah...
First, his uncle, a hawklike French general, wedded him to the glorious cause of carving an African empire for La Patrie, with words that made Kipling's "Recessional" sound like a nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by sleeping near horses and to acquire respect for the Chinese puzzle that is French army discipline. It just happened that he could punch, ride, shoot, drill, sleep, spy, drink, disguise, obey, command and love-his-country better than any one else in that camp, and that his sense of humor...
...disturbed town, sacrifice his men and sneak down through the desert to see some powerful sheiks. He had to take her along. He fell in love with her. And then of course, when it was a question between her honor and his exalted mission in the sheiks' camp, he scrapped the mission. . . . That is not quite the way the story ends, nor would it be fair to say more. Slapstick though it is, the conclusion of this book is one of the most surprising, ingenious and broadly humorous twists ever put to a tale by any one short...
...ever penned such a gambling scene as the one here, where young Jim, the camp "gaycat," "fuzz-face" or "gazoony" is admitted to the Thanksgiving Day poker game and after long lucky hours lays four aces on the horse-blanket to beat Bully Black Hawk out of a monster pot. They gave the lad his moniker (nickname) after that and he skinned (drove) mules thereafter instead of walloping dishes...