Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, replying to Colonel Wedgwood (Liberal), made a statement on the British attitude toward the Geneva Protocol (TIME, Dec. 22). He announced that, owing to objections of the Dominions, who believe that the ideals of the Protocol should be realized progressively in a series of practical stages, he would be obliged to request the League of Nations for a further postponement of the Protocol question...
...Dardanelles campaign early in 1915 he organized the American Red Cross in Constantinople, and later in the same year organized a group of American and native doctors which accompanied the Turkish army in its attack on the Suez Canal. In 1917 he served as Lieutenant Colonel of the Red Cross in France until he became attached to General Allenby's army, which he accompanied in the victorious campaign which ended in the capture of Jerusalem...
...Colonel Philip A. Moore, noted traveller and platform speaker, will give an illustrated lecture at the Union at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, February 24. His lecture will be on "The Trail Riders of the Rockies," and will be illustrated with the films made under his guidance last summer. Hand-colored slides will show the beautiful coloring of the Rocky Mountain scenery, and his motion pictures will give a glimpse of life in the lonely regions of the Northwest...
...Colonel Moore has always been a lover of the wilderness. Soon after his graduation from Princeton, his restless disposition urged him to travel through the Rockies and as far north as the Peace River. At the outbreak of the World War, he was so far from human contact that six weeks passed before he heard even a rumor of it. Immediately he set out on foot, walked two hundred miles to the nearest town, signed up and went overseas to Flanders, where he served with great distinction. As soon as peace was declared, he returned to his life of wandering...
...Tarlac, Philippine Islands, one Colonel Wolfson visited a high school, was invited to examine the pupils. Said he: "I will give a peso (50 cents) to any one who can memorize my full name in 15 minutes." He then took chalk, wrote on the blackboard: Josephus Adolphus Americus Vespucius Leonidus Wol-sicanius Alexandricus Naptalicus Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Wolfson, read amazement on the students' faces, left the room. In 15 minutes, he returned, collected papers. Out of 33 who tried, 23 had memorized his name perfectly...