Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buyers and borrowers of best sellers were mightily of a twitter, last week, at news of new exploits by the author of Revolt in the Desert, famed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. He, with a modesty not inferior to Lindbergh's, has rejected all the honors and decorations which Britons sought to heap upon him in reward for his success in fomenting an Arabian revolt against Turkey during the War. Last week, after eight years of self-imposed nonentity as a British private, T. E. Lawrence returned to Arabia as a British plenipotentiary and arrived...
Last year the Coolidge Administration announced that 1,200 Marines would be kept in Nicaragua until after the election; but that number has now been multiplied 4 times. Colonel Clifford D. Ham, who has been Nicaraguan Collector General of Customs for the past 16 years, said recently, upon resigning his post...
...Marines should not be withdrawn after the elections. It makes no difference which side wins." Colonel Ham is succeeded as Collector General by Irving A. Lindbergh, who has been Deputy Collector General for 16 years...
Henry H. Rogers, Jr., grandson of John D. Rockefeller's old partner in Standard Oil, son of the yachting Colonel, brother of beautiful, sensational Millicent, onetime Countess Salm and now Mrs. Arturo Ramos, does not object to dirty fingernails. In the Cleveland laboratory of Engineer E. M. Fraser, helping perfect an electric drive for automobiles, young Rogers, Oxford graduate, declared: "I would rather cast a generator part than anything else I can think...
Besides Secretaries Sanders and Clark, Physicians Coupal and Boone, and Colonel J. Osmun Latrobe (aide), all of whom receive public mention fairly frequently, the moving of the White Household reminded citizens of White Housekeeper (Mrs.) Ellen Riley and of Personal Stenographer Erwin Geisser, who transcribed the famed "I do not choose" last summer...