Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Charles W. Furlong, famous lecturer and traveler and many times a speaker at the Union, will again deliver his illustrated lecture, "The Passing of the Old West...
...Colonel Furlong has been a prominent figure in military and naval circles for the past 20 years. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he has many times visited and explored the countries of Latin America. His numerous writings on his many adventures never fail to catch the popular fancy...
...milder light from the cornhuskers' state. He is a better civil engineer and businessman than politician. At home, people know him best as the able manager of the municipal utilities. He says little, admires Roosevelt, wants a low tariff. It was once said: "On the color scale Colonel Brookhart [see below] registers a near-red, while Mr. Howell appears only a pale pink...
Cadet Lieut. William J. Glasgow Jr. is one who is called a "big man" in the senior class at West Point. He is captain of the soccer team, member of most of the reception and prom committees, an honor cadet, a President's appointee, the son of a colonel. Now he is a much twitted cadet. Underclassmen salute him with a smirk in their eyes; seniors ask him how his girl friend is getting along...
Piteous Plight. The answer came from Cape Town, South Africa, where there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers...