Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the World War Armistice was signed, Nov, 11, 1918, gallant Canadian troops took Mons. Recently a Canadian journal, the Port Hope Guide, said scathingly of this action...
...last day [of the War] and the last hour, and almost the last minute, when to glorify the Canadian Headquarters Staff, the Commander-in-Chief conceived the mad idea that it would be a fine thing to say that the Canadians had fired the last shot in the Great War and had captured the last German entrenchments before the bugles sounded 11 o'clock, when the armistice which had been signed by both sides would begin officially...
...Thursday, March 29, Sir Herbert Ames will speak on "The League of Nations and the Protection of Minorities". Sir Berbert is a Canadian, at present in this country. He was for many years a member of the Canadian Parliament, and for seven years the Financial Secretary of the League of Nations. The lecture will take place in Harvard 6 at 2 o'clock...
Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause...
...Iselin '30, captain-elect of next year's squash team, captured the Canadian squash racquets chamionship Saturday by defeating A. Martin of the Thistle Club of Hamilton, Ontario, 15-11, 7-15, 11-15, 15-6, 15-8, in the finals of the tournament held in Toronto over the week...