Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...
...Evidently a press error. The two planes that "continued" thus have been the St. Louis and the San Francisco, the latter piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker, eye-witness author of the above account...
Divorced. By Mrs. Grace Shotwell Marson, daughter of the late Bishop Charles Sumner Burch of the N. Y. Protestant Episcopal Diocese; Captain Arnaldo Marson; in White Plains, N. Y. At the same time her son, Lyndon Walkup Burch, divorced his wife Isabelle Keyes Burch. Captain Marson, husband of Bishop Burch's daughter had eloped with Bishop Burch's granddaughter-in-law Isabelle...
...Englishman went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt-unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney Greenstreet) who engineered the titillating situation and kept...
Townsend, captain of the winners, scored 25 points, one more than the combined efforts of the Crimson five. Nassau also starred for Yale, while Captain Wenner and Waterman played well for the losers...