Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irate Lillie. During the trial Captain Wright referred to one-time famed actress Lillie Langtry as " 'The Jersey Lily' . . . well-known in the U. S. to have been Mr. Gladstone's mistress" (TIME...
...Captain Wright wrote: "Mr. Gladstone . . . founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity : in pub lic to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...smoke in the presence of a lady would have been equivalent to an unforgivable slight. . . . The captain of the Queen's Guard at St. James's Palace concluded his daily report with his signed certificate that 'no smoking had taken place in any of the rooms'. . . . The Iron Duke (of Wellington) himself declared: '. . . The practice of smoking by the use of pipes, cigars and cheroots . . . is not only in itself a species of intoxication occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit...
...classic vaunt: "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." All that was golden about the glorious '90s is bound up in those few quiet words. According to legend, they were uttered after he had broken his leg in the Princeton game by Philip M. Brett, Rutgers football captain in 1891, now a Manhattan attorney. But last week the Rutgers Alumni Monthly robbed Mr. Brett of his glory. Legend was wrong, said the Monthly, in a few particulars. Mr. Brett did not break his leg. Mr. Brett said nothing about dying for dear old Rutgers. It was the late...
This game will be the first one in which R. L. Summers, newly elected captain, will lead his team into action. The 1930 outfit is constantly improving and should give the Milton outfit strong opposition With last year's 3-3 the game in mind, both teams will have an added incentive for victory...