Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Colonel Lindbergh eliminated because of his years, public opinion gives definite indications of making Will Rogers its choice for the next president. Favorite son of Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings...
...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is probably the only man alive today of whom it can be truly said: "Here is a hero whose feet are not of clay...
...list was the name of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Four times has he jumped for dear life, oftener than any native flyer. His disciples wondered why he has discarded the device to which he owes four debts of life. In Central America he is flying without a parachute...
...receiving line will be Colonel and Mrs. W. S. Browning, Commander and Mrs. R. C. Grady, Professor and Mrs. O. M. W. Sprague, Professor and Mrs. M. T. Copeland, Professor and Mrs. A. M. Tozzer and Professor and Mrs. C. Palache...
...American hero seemed tired when he marched up to the President, but he was smiling happily. Speaking through an interpreter, President Calles assured him of Mexico's delight. . . . The greeting not entirely formal. The President grasped the flyer's hand warmly and threw his arms around the Colonel's shoulder...