Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Walter Camp nor Grantland Rice ever picked an Ail-American football team. Their selections starting with Walter Camp's in 1889 have always been entitled "All-America Football Team" (Collier's Weekly...
...first smart move occurred in a Childs' restaurant in Washington late one night in 1919. Lieut. Eugene Vidal, stationed at Camp Humphreys, Va., observed a beauteous, dark-haired girl in a debutante party nearby. Overcoming his extreme shyness he contrived to meet her that night and again next day. She was Nina Gore, daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore. They were married...
After I was interned in Germany as a prisoner of war in 1917-18 I edited a prison camp paper, English-American Notes, which was supported exclusively by British and American war prisoners. This newspaper, of which complete files are extant, contained no war propaganda. The only items in it that could be called propaganda, in a stretched sense of that word, were its paid advertisements of Tauchnitz books, sporting articles, wearing apparel, souvenirs and the like. Of such paid advertisements (the proceeds from which went to my publisher, a neutral Switzer) there were all too few, alas...
From Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove to nearby CCC Camp Meriwether. In the yellow pine mess hall he received a cake 18 in. tall, congratulated woodsters on having "the most artistic camp I have ever seen," and concluded: "I hope that Congress, when it convenes, will continue the Civilian Conservation Corps for another year...
...downs many a whiskey & soda with George V is handsome, aristocratic Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson. In his battling youth Sir David bombarded Afrikanders to Queen Victoria's taste, later commanded the royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert to King Edward's satisfaction, became personal aide-de-camp to King George and is now His Majesty's Governor of Newfoundland. One day last week both houses of the Newfoundland Parliament passed and sent to Sir David an historic resolution which compressed into a single rumbling, mealy-mouthed sentence the whole Empire formula of turning Newfoundland back from...