Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibility of the participation of Major Daly in more than a superficial coaching capacity, however, has been emphatically denied. As an instructor in the military science department for next year the greater part of his attention must necessarily be devoted to that work. Colonel Robert Browining, U. S. A. commanding officer of the Harvard R. O. T. C., to whose unit Major Daly has been ordered to report, when questioned in regard to the latter's plans, emphasized the fact that any opportunity of Major Daly to act in the capacity of football teacher would be limited to his spare...
...Colonel Philip A. Moore will give an illustrated talk on "The Trail Riders of the Rockies" at the Union tonight at 7 o'clock. The lecture will be based on his experiences gained in travelling over 25,000 miles of trail in the Rocky Mountains, where he has spent much of his life in various occupations, becoming successively prospector, guide, big game hunter, explorer, and anything that offered new experience or excitement...
...reached him, he was in the Canadian Rockies, so far removed from civilization that he was forced to walk two hundred miles to the nearest enlisting station in order to sign up. He was immediately sent to Flanders, where he served with great distinction, and received his commission as colonel. As soon as peace was declared he returned to his life in the west, which he has now abandoned for a time in order to take up the lecture platform. His services have proved invaluable to the Bureau of Commercial Economics of Washington, under whose auspices he will speak tonight...
...Colonel Moore's lecture will be illustrated by hand-colored slides of the animals and scenery of the Rockies, and by moving pictures taken under his direction last summer...
...religious beliefs, the then Colonel Castelnau was, as always, a devout Catholic, while in politics he was a sincere Royalist; but his Royalism was of a brand that placed France above everything, as his long career under the Third Republic has proved. His Catholicism and his Royalism made him many enemies and he is known throughout France as le capucin botte (the booted Capuchin...