Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that no questions be asked about her past life if she is to return to the family who so ardently desire her. But the old father's suspicions are aroused, Magda forgets her initial caution and attempts to explain the life she has led away from home. Immediately the colonel's conception of honor is outraged, his family name has been irretrievably degraded, and all the household compassed in the ruin of one daughter. To his stiff-necked, unyielding idea of honor the only remedy lies through the bloody channels established by time and tradition. From this point the action...
...rest of the cast is marked by the same finish, and also by a remarkable fitness for the various' parts. Each actor and actress is adapted to the peculiar role he or she plays, not only physically, but even, it would seem, in natural temperament. Edward Fielding as the colonel, has the impressive bearing, the stubborn will, and the military self-righteousness of the typical Prussian officer as if he had spent his entire life in the Kaiser's army. The realism of this old gentleman's character may be somewhat difficult for the American of today to grasp...
...Married. Colonel James Taber Loree, 39, Vice President and General Manager of the Delaware & Hudson, son of Railroader President Leonor Fresnel Loree; to one Miriam G. Collins, in Brooklyn...
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: "People discovered last week that the Government awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to me 'after consistent gallantry, conspicuous energy and marked efficiency during the World War. I have known about the award lor five years, but I asked the War Department not to confer the medal upon me while I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...