Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the 1929 Harvard Military Dance Committee, held yesterday afternoon, J. E. Barrett '30, University football captain, was appointed as chairman of the committee which will arrange for the 1930 dance. R. H. O'Connell '30 was appointed treasurer while Harwood Ellis '31, B. W. Frazier '31, L. P. Marks '30, J. C. Prior '31, F. W. Stetson '31 and H. W. Williams '31 complete the staff...
Last week "Captain Barker" was arrested again. Her offense before the law was not that she had worn men's clothes, or even that she had persuaded Miss Alfreda Emma Howard of Littlehampton, Sussex, to marry her, but on a common charge' of perjury, for she 'had falsely sworn in high court that she was "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker," when she was really Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Smith, mother...
...brilliant lawyer, a keen chess-player, teetotaler, nonsmoker, and a civilian, whereas Mexican governments are traditionally composed of militarists, traditionally corrupt. The nickname which his enemies have fastened upon him, El Capitan de los Cristeros, correctly indicates his Catholic sympathies, but is cruelly unjust in its literal connotations, "The Captain of the Christers...
...Anti-Saloon League. She has been an active realtor in Miami. She is mother of nine children-seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons-Harold, a polo-playing director of Chrysler Corp., Dayton Steel Racquet Co., Sikorsky Aviation Co. and many another corporation, and Nelson ("Bud"), Yale football captain in 1915, now president of N. S. Talbott Co.* All nine children with their husbands and wives and 24 offspring spent last Christmas with Mrs. Talbott in Dayton. The seven comely daughters were with her last week at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, seeing her off for Europe with...
...with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow, farmer, was a part of it. Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle player. Dan first saw Fortune racing from a village with the entire population thundering hotfooted in his wake...