Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University of Virginia (Rep.) vs. University of North Carolina (Rep.)-President Coolidge (Rep.) will attend." The Colonel's companion was asking: "See any Democrats, Colonel...
Naturally U. S. financiers approve the activist, acquisitive qualities of Chileans, and have dealt hugely and profitably with nearly all of Chile's able and kinetic dictators. The last of these,' Colonel Carlos Ibanez who is only incidentally President of Chile, has cleverly adopted the Anglo-Saxon technique of calling his opponents "Communists" and dealing with them as though they were desperadoes. For example the Dictator deported as "dangerous reds" (TIME, March 21, 1927) a venerable judge of the Chilean Supreme Court and several financiers who opposed his views...
...remaining weeks of flying time the Club is planning to undertake two or possibly more cross-country flights. One will probably consist of a trip to Colonel Green's airport at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a one hour flight each way. The other flight will in all probability be to either the Worcester or Hartford airport. While the pilots for the flight have not been announced as yet the foremost candidates are: W. N. Bump '29. T. P. Sproul '29, L. D. Parker '31, and P. H. Moon '32. This flying time, plus that of the regular operation at the Boston Airport...
JUBILEE JIM: THE LIFE OF COLONEL JAMES FISK JR.-Robert H. Fuller-Macmillan...
...green with pearl trimmings; the cornices and arches, lilac, pink, and pearl; and as admiral laden with gold braid he stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where many mistook him for president, and ever afterwards dubbed him Jubilee...