Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been given to this sensational yarn and so much emphasis has been placed upon statements I did not make and stories I did not tell and I have received so much praise for something I did not do, that I did write an explanatory and corrective letter to Colonel N. G. Osborn of the New Haven Journal-Courier, whose editorial was the first intimation I had of the existence of this extremely garbled account of my remarks...
This was the first time the South Atlantic had ever been flown from east to west without stopover. Colonel de Pinedo, Italian aviator, de Beires and Vabral had alighted on islands between the continents. St. Roman, Mouneyres and Petit, like Nungesser & Coli, had flown away and never again been seen...
...19th Hole. Frank Craven has written a golf comedy. He introduces a hero who is chiefly interested in stained glass; introduces this hero to a bag of golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk...
...second visiting debater is Andrew Haddon of the University of Edinburgh. Haddon is 23 years old and was born at Howick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He is a grand-nephew of J. B. Selkirk, one of the best known of Scotland's minor poets, while his father is Lieutenant Colonel Haddon, a lawyer by profession, and a soldier by virtue of a lifelong connection with the Volunteer and Territorial Armies...
Observers guessed that it might be because Chief of Chaplains Axton, who at present has the rank of a colonel, has advocated making colonelcies possible for all chaplains and giving the chief of chaplains the rank of major general. Major general is the highest U. S. Army rank, except in war. Infantry & artillery officers resent the idea of the chief of 125 "sky pilots" being ranked equally with the few U. S. soldiers who rise to command 10,000 to 12,000 (a peacetime Army division...