Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornellians in the War, 264 were killed. First appearance of the U.S. flag at the French front was in May 1917 when it was displayed as a Cornell unit under French command. Barred from the University's memorial was the name of one Cornell graduate (Hans Friedrich Wagner, 1912) who died fighting for Germany. Fortnight ago Cornell undergraduates started a fund to give him a memorial...
...Omaha, Neb. Brig.-General LeRoy Eltinge was delirious, refused to take medicine prescribed for him. He cried to the nurse: "Who are you to tell me, the commander of an entire brigade, what to do?" The nurse masked her voice and growled: "I am General Pershing; I command you to take your medicine." Delirious General Eltinge raised his hand in a feeble salute, took the medicine, soon died...
Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski is probably the only musician who could command such consideration from New York City authorities and a great steamship line. But Paderewski has been a figure greatly honored this year. He is 70 and early last season he underwent an appendectomy which seriously threatened to end his career (TIME, Oct. 7, 1929). This year he returned to the U. S. (traveling for the first time without Madame Paderewska who is incurably ill in Switzerland), made a nation-wide concert tour, played 80 concerts to jam-packed houses of people who suspected they were hearing...
Rose Marie four times (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). Before the Royal Courts last week came the night of Their Majesties annual "command performance" at a music hall. Occasion: charity. (His Majesty's liege subject Charles Spencer Chaplin had refused to perform [TIME, May 18], sent a charitable contribution of $1,000 which he contemptuously called "about as much as I earned in my last two years on the English stage.") Place: the Palladium Music Hall, jammed as usual with men and women who like belly-laughs, smoke and beer. Because this was George V's first public appearance...
...bill were two U. S. acts, many British. Juggler Rich Hayes (British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...