Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was the salute of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to President Calvin Coolidge. Flying from Pierre, S. Dak., to Cheyenne, Wyo., Colonel Lindbergh had come to drop a card to the President. The card was an engraved announcement that he was touring the country to promote commercial aviation. It was signed, in pencil scrawl, "Charles A. Lindbergh...
...home and married her. Yes, and by God if the damn kid didn't get himself shot over in France, after all the trouble I went to on his account. . . ." Boasted a lanky comedian, ". . . Maybe you don't remember the night down in Santiago when the Colonel bummed a drink of my whiskey and I wrapped him up in a tent and put him to sleep on the top of a bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure...
...this woman" for adopting for herself and followers evangelical uniforms resembling those of U. S. Navy officers. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from Denver to Pierre, S. Dak., described a circle over Greeley, Col., and passed out of sight. Soon Greeleyites saw a speck returning, wondered if it might be Colonel Lindbergh, again, saw it as a bird which, after it, too, had circled Greeley, was described by an Associated Press correspondent as a "giant" golden eagle...
Career. In 1882, when Egypt was a backward province paying heavy tribute to the Sultan at Constantinople, when the Sudan was the happy hunting ground of murderous, dancing dervishes, the 21-year-old ZaghJul took part in his first revolt. It was led by Colonel Arabi against the Khedive and the British, was squelched by Viscount Wolseley...
...strange tale was told in a Pall Mall club last week. A dashing, irate, monocled colonel, brushing discipline aside, tapped a silent, quizzical, white-haired general on the back...