Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thou art the man. "Colonel House asked me if I would consider going into the Cabinet. I did not take the inquiry very seriously. . . [Later] My commission had been signed, but up to that moment I had no direct word from the President, oral or written, that I was to be the Secretary of Agriculture...
...Colonel Lawrence La Tourette Driggs, first president of the American Flying Club and one of the foremost authorities on aviation in the United States, will speak on "Our Mastery of the Air" in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight...
...Colonel La Tourette Driggs, a famous aviation expert and the foremost aerial photographer in the world, has been scheduled to speak in the Living Room on Monday night at 7.30 o'clock...
Garibaldi v. Garibaldi. Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, rushed to Paris by the French police, was confronted there by his brother, Sante Garibaldi, rabid antiFascist, who shouted: "Traitor! How could you drag into the mire our family name, our glory and our honor...
...Colonel Huger of South Carolina tells the story of his attempt at rescuing Lafayette from prison in Austria. Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...