Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn neared, a battalion of Federal troops quartered near the Presidential palace in Caracas mutinied under the leadership of Chief-Conspirator Captain Rafael Alvarado. Two brother officers who would not join the mutiny were shot dead. Then, having tasted blood, the battalion rushed out at double quick march to seize the large supplies of arms always kept at the San Carlos Barracks...
...retired, in the room next to that of his eight-year-old daughter Pat, who, he said, "doesn't give a hump about all this flying." The Germans, strange figures in Ireland, plodded back to their quarters, the Baron to play a final game of solitaire, the phlegmatic Captain to make a final study of weather charts before turning...
Engaged. Herman A. MacDonald, secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, onetime mayor of Beverly, Mass.; to Miss Marion Sarah Young, of Brookline, Mass. Said Governor Fuller last fortnight, "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters" (TIME, April...
...bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond Lil stabbed her in the tenderloin district. Despite her efforts, Gus Jordan, the bowery boss, is caught eventually, for white slave trafficking. The Salvation Army captain, really a member...
...outstanding player of the afternoon was J. C. Dreier '28, who led the scorers with four goals to his credit. H. J. Wallace '28 and C. D. McQuaid '28 also played good offensive games, with two goals apiece, while on the defense Captain J. H. Lane '28 wielded an efficient and powerful stick, Breithut, a Dartmouth football star of last season, played conspicuously well for the Big Green...