Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narratives are those written by the six unknown privates who in their dry, yet at times humorous New England way, record the day by day progress of the siege as the weeks wore on. The first journal was kept by a man who was apparently on the inside of camp affairs which enabled him to write one of the best chronicles from an historical standpoint. The reader must remember that this expedition was undertaken with a distinct religious purpose, the colonists all feeling that they were carrying out the will of God and were making the world safe...
Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, onetime Washington police superintendent, is afraid of what months of jobless shifting about may do to boys' morale. Last week he appeared before the Manufactures Committee to urge his plan for establishing small camps where boys may help support themselves by farming and other work, receive vocational training. He wants each camp limited to 750, with semimilitary discipline imposed by self-chosen officers. Failing some such measures, General Glassford foresees "a generation of hoboes...
...miserably inside a barbed-wire stockade while icy rain beat down. Hunter Wright waited for skies to clear, said he: "They might catch cold and die." Then the lions were released to roam the underbrush, regain their native ferocity. Instead they sat howling mournfully in the mud outside the camp. Next day an hour's pelting with sticks & stones roused them to indignant roars, threatening lunges. Thereupon Hunter Wright, Son Charles and others gleefully shot the lions dead...
Maintaining an undefeated record, the Freshman hockey team took the Exeter ice men into camp by a score of 3-1 at the Boston Garden Wednesday afternoon. In the second game of the day the Junior Varsity team had little difficulty with a weak Governor Dummer sextet, blanking them 4-0. In the Freshman game Exeter opened the scoring after seven minutes of play, four minutes later the Freshmen tied the core, and in the last period tied the score and in the last period put two more shots into...
...appearances on the stage of the Palace Theater are a better a enough pill to swallow. But the last punishing touch of perfidy are the lines alleged to come from his pen. A strange and altogether alien person seems to tell how he took the "400", in to camp, wallowed in their silk sheets, sipped their wines, smoked their expensive tobacco, and regaled them with his glittering conversation...