Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outraged the decencies of nature and broken the law of man," cried Sir Ernest Wild, K. C., Recorder of London, at Old Bailey court, last week. After elaborating these thoughts for some minutes he sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, for perjury in swearing falsely to her marriage declaration, famed "Captain Barker, D. S. O.," the transvestite, Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Arkell-Smith, who for five years masqueraded successfully as a male War hero, who eloped with and married Miss Alfreda Howard, a chemist's simple daughter (TIME, March...
...matches, dropped one, tied another. By lunchtime the next day, British golf enthusiasts were jubilant. The British team was leading in four matches, three were tied, and only Leo Diegel of the U. S. was ahead. Sleek, droop-jowled Walter Hagen, British open champion and captain of the U. S. team, and Britain's cadaverous Captain George Duncan, had halved eight out of the first nine holes. Then Duncan had gone ahead to a five-hole lead. "Sure, I'll win. I always do," was the Hagen attitude. But dour George Duncan won, ten up and eight...
...Sikorsky biplane, Ville de Paris, built in 1927 for Captain Rene Fonck's intended flight to Paris and lately bought by American International Airways, would, it was promised, undertake a flight from some U. S. airport to Santiago, Chile. Objects: the world's non-stop flight record, Pan-American friendship...
...future growth. . . ." For something to talk about, he said he "wondered" how he would feel about having co-eds under his charge. He expressed no alarm when he learned that his new charges had recently held a vote to determine their "MOST BEAUTIFUL MALE," had chosen pompadoured Captain Virgil Gist, of the University basketball team...
...Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 defeated Hayes, star Amherst No. 1 man, in straight sets. In the doubles Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30 and E. B. Ward '30 finished a long battle to defeat Hayes and Bowditch...