Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several months ago, Colonel William Mitchell of the Army Air Service was too candid in the expression of his opinions concerning the way affairs of aviation were being conducted in the United States--too candid, that is, for the comfort of those in charge; not candid enough, perhaps, to satisfy the curiosity of civilians. As a result of his frankness, he is now appearing before a court-martial. In theory, he is being tried for insubordination and other offenses. In fact, the Navy department is being tried for maladministration and inefficiency...
...Plea. The proper time having arrived, Colonel Moreland asked how Colonel Mitchell pleaded to each of the eight charges and two other questions as to how he pleaded in general. In a detached monotone Colonel Mitchell replied...
...these arguments advanced in behalf of the accused could stand it would mean that a private could berate his captain, a major could lampoon his colonel, with the result that discipline would vanish and the Army become...
Came the moment of firing. General Mueller raised his field-glass to observe the effect of bullets which were to whine harmlessly over many a German head. An instant later he dropped the glass, clutched at his side and fell dead. Lieutenant Colonel von Hoeruf, a staff officer, was wounded in the leg at the same moment. Aghast, Defense Minister Gessler and the military observers, realizing that the barrage had somehow fallen short, signaled frantically to the gunners to cease fire...
...presents whole regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel on the barroom floor with blue flames and smoke issuing from between his toes. The Colonel took the recipe to Washington, D. C., named it "the hot buttered bun" in deference to the late Mr. Bryan and made his fortune selling it to Senators...