Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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June 20.) I salute you for your remark about Colonel Lindbergh's picture being...
...Louis suffered exposure to corrosive salt air while being transported home on the U. S. cruiser Memphis ("there was no excuse for not keeping this plane safe and dry"), Mr. Mitchell added that the plane was under naval care at Washington. Calling the plane's inability to take Colonel Lindbergh to New York the "one failure in the Spirit of St. Louis's performance," Mr. Mitchell added: "and it was caused by the organization in this country which has always impeded and held up aviation-the Navy." Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant...
...Died. Colonel James William Zevely, 65, famed attorney, at his home in East Hampton, L. I., of pernicious anemia. Despite his great abilities as a lawyer, he was perhaps best known to the U. S. public as "the man after whom Harry F. Sinclair named the famous racehorse...
Damon Runyon (sports writer, murder trial reporter) described Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's appearance during the ceremonies in Washington as follows: "He looked so frightened, and so very, very young that you felt your old Adam's apple working, and you wished that you might get to him, and put your arm around him, like you would do with the lad at home, and say to him: 'Now, looky here, sonny, don't you be scart, these folks are just trying to let you know they're glad...
...celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies make him a handy quicksilver tongue in the thermometer of changing ideas...