Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said. His program was to nominate for Vice President that tall 39-year-oldster Repre sentative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Mr. Fish who footballed at Harvard, is not a Negro. He is the third of a series of Hamilton Fishes who sprang from Nicholas Fish, a lieutenant-colonel in Washington's army. The first Hamilton Fish was Secre tary of State in Grant's Cabinet. Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish has yet to prove himself as sterling a statesman as his grandfather or as his father, who was speaker of the New York Assembly...
Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman...
...parks, etc.); a 10% pay-raise, totaling some $6,000,000 per annum, for night-working city and railroad postal employes; a bill of extra allowances to fourth-class postmasters for rent, fuel, light, equipment; a bill to promote Captain George R. Armstrong, U. S. A. (retired) to lieutenant-colonel...
Peking Preparations. Twenty-three hundred foreign troops stood prepared to defend the Legation Quarter of Peking, last week, under the prospective command of the senior officer present: Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Holcomb of the U. S. Marine Corps...
Good humor, rather than barbed and sharpened wit is, indeed, typical of the whole of this present issue. There is plenty of pleasant nonsense, sustained from the verses on the first page through the burlesque accounts of the extraordinary exploits of Colonel (and Captain) Sir Harry Hard Sauce. But unfortunately this nonsense is frequently diffuse and inconsequent--the story of the Golden Girl's transoceanic flight would profit, for example, if there were in it less wandering of the fancy and more satiric thrusts. It is, moreover, a pity that L. C. Jones' bold and effective drawings cannot be provided...