Word: captain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large potatoes their capture would likely have been kept secret. Certainly Nina, though similarly beauteous and professionally equipped, was no Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning). That curvesome celebrity of World War I did business in official secrets on a grand scale. Maltreated Dutch wife of a bibulous Scottish captain in the Dutch colonial forces, she went on the stage in Paris in 1905, passing as part Javanese, with a performance of muscular bravura learned in Java. She became France's leading courtesan, sought, kept and highly feed by eminent members of the diplomatic set. French agents...
...Crimson eleven, encouraged by the return to form of Captain Howie Mendel, will be in excellent shape. Although beaten in Saturday's game with Princeton by a 2 to 0 score, the team was not disheartened in the least...
...fact, the effectiveness of the Harlow aerial shelters may be the deciding point of the contest, as Harvard, with Captain Torbie Macdonald again only a spectator, attempts to repulse another Army invasion on Soldiers Field. Harvard has not beaten the Cadets since 1931 when Barry Wood's winged messages of death spelled a 14 to 13 victory...
Cornell, however, remains a relatively unknown quantity, but not a negligible one, since the Big Red, which took seventh in the I. C. 4-A. meet a year ago, is considerably stronger this season and will provide Captain Penn Tuttle and his cohorts with their toughest competition. Ranney, Wing-enter, Schmidt, and Hoag are the Ithacans' big guns...
BERGEN, Norway--The American freighter City of Flint, shunted about the seas since its capture a month age today by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, will unload its cargo here and sail for the United States as soon as possible, Captain Joseph A. Gainard said today...