Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undernourished children will be given two weeks at camp by means of funds which up to this year have been used for the annual Phillips Brooks House dinner, according to E. S. Amazeen '31, graduate secretary of the House. Well over $130 was spent last year for the banquet, a sum which will pay two weeks' stay in camp for about 15 Boston children...
...desk. They began talking-the unsmiling Oklahoma lawyer dead set on putting out more money, the genial Hyde Park squire equally determined to effect a friendly settlement by conciliation and compromise. Minutes ticked into hours. When they rose and said goodby, President Roosevelt had taken Senator Thomas completely into camp...
Died. Prince Zakhari Mdivani of Georgia (South Russia), 65, onetime aide-de-camp of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, father of the much-married Mdivani princes (Serge, David, Alexis); of uremia and heart disease; in Paris...
...time the play has been done in sound but the treatment is fresh, the characters new. Elmer (Joe E. Brown) is a temperamental yap. The Chicago Cubs buy his contract, find he has lost interest in baseball, make a deal with his girl (Patricia Ellis) to lure him into camp. There he bats out their best pitcher, walks off raging because they are incompetent. Between fits of injured dignity Elmer finds time to bat the team into the "World Serious," then riots himself into jail, refuses to come out and play. When he is finally released his confreres suspect that...
Enlistments were limited to single men between 18 and 25 whose families had been long on municipal relief rolls. They were all required to make a substantial allotment from their pay to their depend ents. At Army camps they were issued: O. D. (olive drab) woolen trousers, O. D. flannel shirts, work trousers, underclothes, socks, shoes, raincoat, jumpers, work hat, cravat, belt, barracks bag, two O. D. blankets, mess kit. For two weeks the Army was to condition them, teach them the rudiments of camp life. As civilians they were not to be put through military drills. When sufficiently toughened...