Word: canteen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner to see the danger better and a nobleman goes up to his roof for the same purpose. The raid in the fog, brilliantly photographed, is the justification of an unconvincing anecdote about a British aviator (John Garrick) and a waitress (Helen Chandler) in a camp canteen. Best shot: crowds in Whitechapel watching the fight...
Thieves. While the rest of Lakehurst watched the departing ship, a shrewd thief entered the headquarters; building, stole $2,000 from an open safe. Other thieves took a safe containing $700 from a canteen, robbed public telephone booths...
...James Rowland Angell and Steelman Charles M. Schwab were speakers. The news was that the Spence School, now no longer privately owned, has a new headmistress: Miss Helen Clarkson Miller, onetime associate principal and History of Art teacher. She served during the War as director of Training School for canteen workers, and is now on many educational committees, among them the International Relations Committee of World Federation of Educational Association. She is successor to Miss Charlotte. S. Baker, now president of the Board of Trustees, onetime principal. Spence is deserting its old buildings to move into nine Georgian floors farther...
...soldier. Compiling the records was clever and their other stories are as interesting as Hans C. Andersen's but, like the latter's, was meant for children. Why study mass-psychology to find out why -Obscenity deleted. the Y charged six francs for cigarettes when the army canteen across the street charged five? At Montfalcon they even charged a wounded man (stretcher case) for cigarettes and by God he had to pay before he got them-correction, a shavetail did the paying; the buck didn't have any pants. F. Palmer and the Inspector-General know which...
...made a great financial sacrifice and served with the Y overseas for sixteen months, working long hours in a canteen and in executive positions, I know what I am talking about...