Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis, a dashing artillery officer with wavy black hair and a handsome mustache, was an instructor at Aldershot Training Camp. As a great treat his pretty young wife went up to town and purchased a brace of Manchurian partridge, a little one and a big one, for the lieutenant's dinner. As a dutiful British wife she gave her husband the big one. He took a few mouthfuls, complained of the taste and made his wife sample it. The two partridges were taken out to the kitchen and burned. That night Lieutenant Hubert Chevis died...
...Half way to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover ordered his car stopped for a picnic luncheon. Over a seven-rail fence the President helped his guests, then followed in two steps. Sandwiches and drinks were brought from the trunk rack, spread under big Virginia oaks. Motorists paused along the highway, gaped at their President having...
John Edison Sloane, 12-year-old grandson of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, found a 24-oz. meteor near his camp in Maine, said he would present it to Harvard University...
...Diablo!-a good revolution doesn't come every day. Federal troops cornered the white-haired old warrior near Los Palacios in Pinar del Rio. He escaped to the hills on horseback with 22 followers. Again there was a traitor. The Federals followed to Peraza's secret camp on Toro Hill. There was a rush, a rattle of musketry. Ten were shot where they lay, ten were captured, two escaped. The old man reached for his rifle and fell with three bullets in him. So rough was the trail that it took 18 hours to carry the old fighter...
...trusts at the end of last year were $9,000,000 and $20.000.000 respectively. Atlas now has $25,000,000 in assets, controls a total investment structure of $48,000,000. Despite their many duties, Friends Howard & Odium still have time to go trout-fishing together at the Howard camp, Mount Mansfield, in Vermont...