Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt, hunting bear in Mississippi, refused to shoot a cub brought into camp for him to kill. This illustration of Roosevelt I's compassion was cartooned by Clifford K. Berryman of the Washington Post, who sketched the cub as a cuddly, koala-like animal, thus created the "Teddy bear'' which became T. R.'s totem until the Bull Moose movement of 1912. First toy Teddy bears were made in Germany by famed stuffed Toymaker Margarete Steiff, who is believed not to have copied the koala...
...that during the War he fought bravely for Germany, but unwilling to forgive him for having published in 1929-three years before Adolf Hitler came to power-an article accusing the German Army of spending too much money, the Nazis in 1933 jugged Carl von Ossietzky in a prison camp. Last week Berlin correspondents put up the plea that since Herr von Ossietzky had just been awarded the $40,000 Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 30), perhaps, as a great favor, the Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment would authorize them to interview the Prizeman in a sanatorium to which...
...affected stiffness, in order to play Shakespeare. In the opening scenes he is the reserved, resolute soldier, quietly affable, that Othello is meant to be. As Iago progresses in his corrosive work, Othello is made by the master actor, through the episodes of the fictitious night in the camp and the handkerchief show and so forth, imperceptibly to advance his jealous disintegration, until at the end he is raving so furiously that Mr. Huston is forced to make his after-curtain speech with a very hoarse voice...
...wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes off in a rage...
Back from the football field with a sad eye and a heavy heart. But, Lord, how the players in our camp did fight! Methinks it ungentlemanly bold to call it "moral victory", but the soldiers of Harvard worked with each other like the very wheels of a parlor clock. In the stadium came into my head the words...