Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballot stealing, while spectacular, had no real effect; since when the votes were counted Colonel Smith was found to be an easy winner...
Senator McKinley's "bone dry" harangues, had not availed against Colonel Smith's impassioned anti-World Court tirades. The question of whether Smith can win out over George ("Wetter-Than-Niagara") Brennan, who secured the Democratic nomination, promptly came to the fore...
...Colonel Smith is a Moose, Elk, Shriner, Knight of Pythias, Woodman, etc. He once managed Mr. Taft's Illinois primary campaign. He has been once a Congressman (1919). He often says: "I'm just an ordinary...
Amundsen -Ellsworth -Nobile. While her Norwegian and American commanders progressed in triumph to Tromso and took ship, with supplies of men, materials and hydrogen gas, to meet her at Spitzbergen, the dirigible Norge obeyed the commands of her Italian chief, Colonel Nobile, hurrying over Europe by day and night. Her landing at Pulham Field, England, was accomplished after much maneuvering. Various supercargoes were discharged and she left, the evening after arriving, for Oslo. Grey morning found her feeling her way along the Danish coast. Soon after noon she dipped to the royal palace at Oslo, to Explorer Amundsen...
...referred to the International Electro-Technical Commission of which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...