Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the 'Navy Wilbur, interviewed by Washington correspondents last week, recounted to them a little homily about a U.S. marine who served during the Boxer campaign. This marine, said Mr. Wilbur, spoke up and told the commander of certain troops of a certain foreign power that his men ought not to fire at a group of Chinese. The advice was taken, the Chinese spared; but the marine was later rebuked by a U.S. officer for speaking to a foreign officer. "Aw," he replied, "I didn't mean no harm...
...until after a long campaign against smut-writers and publishers that he turned his eye to the devilments of the quack doctors and abortionists. It was his practice to write under a false address, or disguised, to pay a visit to these evildoers. This led to mistakes but the method was not without value. It was Anthony Cornstock who decoyed the notorious Madame Restell to jail and then drove her to kill herself. When he heard of the latter event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates...
Opening in the middle of April, First National Pictures will launch a campaign to secure for the screen those Grecian visages which to date have been obscured by the dust of the pursuit of knowledge. The fortunate youths will forthwith be shipped prepaid to Burbank, California where they will be tested thoroughly for eight weeks at $50 per week. Should the neophytes meet with the approbation and unqualified admiration of this branch of the cinema world, they will be reengaged on a scale of rapidly mounting salaries...
...sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...
Harvard's 1927 football campaign will be opened this afternoon when the Crimson gridiron candidates meet Head Coach Arnold Horween '21 and a large corps of assistants in the Locker Building at 2:30 o'clock...