Word: disciplinarianism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Winship could bear delay with equanimity, Major General Robert Lee Howze, president of the Court could not. He is a disciplinarian of the first water. Way back in '91 he got the Congressional Medal of Honor for licking a crowd of Sioux in South Dakota. This week he proceeded to rake the counsel over the coals. The Trial Judge Advocates explained that they had not known until the day before what witnesses the defense wished to call...
...point where mob action has at last interfered and set a precedent. The Riot Act has been read to yodelling Rheinharts, operatic understudies, and ragtime virtuosi. The day of the proctor and yard cop is obviously past, for the undergraduate has discovered he himself is a splendid disciplinarian, and he takes a decided pleasure in his office. Gilbert and Sullivan might well have said, "When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done, the student's lot is quite a happy...
Rear Admiral Nulton, a man of 55, a good disciplinarian, with a record of service in many branches of the Navy, is to step into Wilson's place. The new Superintendent was born in Winchester, Va., Was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1889. At three periods since then he has been assigned to duty at the Academy, The last time, 1915-18, when Admiral Eberle (then Captain) was Superintendent, he served as Commandant of Midshipmen...
...Belleau Wood, Vaux, Saint Mihiel, Blanc Mont, Argonne-Meuse offensive. It suffered 24,000 casualties, the greatest of any U. S. division. It captured 12,000 prisoners-one-quarter of the entire number taken by the U. S. Army. Now Lejeune, the gallant fighter, the able tactician, the great disciplinarian, Commandant of a Corps which he helped to make famous, is trying to buy that Corps its home...
...lying between the Residency at Cairo and Downing Street, a stream of dots and dashes spelt enigmatical words which were decoded rapidly by experts. Lord Allenby, rigid, hard, unflinching disciplinarian, was making demands and recommendations; the Cabinet was considering them. Then came a telegram: "Sir Lee Stack died tonight at midnight." Next morning a code message sped to Egypt; it was a British ultimatum...