Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Could detect no trace of conscious irony or sarcasm in a remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they...
Stream-crosser Stimson was born in Manhattan in 1867, is a graduate of Yale (1888) and Harvard Law School, is entitled to wear the Phi Beta Kappa key. He was unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1910), was Secretary of War under President Taft (1911-1913). As Colonel of the 31st Field Artillery he saw World War service in France...
...Manhattan, last week, a divorce suit began which might never have received publicity had not two of the principals, mustachioed Col. Edward C. Carrington (onetime campaign manager for Theodore Roosevelt) and his brother, Campbell Carrington, battled violently with canes on Park Ave. Colonel Carrington accused his wife and brother of adultery...
...apologia Colonel Lawrence writes finely in his preface: "They [the Arabs] were as unstable as water, and, like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coast of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed. . . . One such wave (and not the least) I raised...
...Purpose: to protect the copyright, since the book could have been pirated in the U. S. had it not been published and copyrighted here. It was not expected that, any of the 520,000 copies would be sold. Thus their contents would be kept privy to Colonel Lawrence's friends, although a copy had to be deposited in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., which anyone may read...