Word: disciplinarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow passengers, including women and children, has stripped them of any superficial glamor they may once have had. They have merely become irritating occurrences in which a few individuals make public nuisances of themselves. We believe they meet with the strong condemnation of the undergraduate body and that any disciplinarian measures on the part of the College would be received with complete approbation...
Stuart was a hard fighter and disciplinarian, but he was also ''a social type, loving people, laughing much, leading out in song. He had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry, affected anagrams. There was never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife...
...less than usual. He caught for the immortal Walter Johnson with the Washing ton Senators in 1909. During the War he was a tough and talkative top-sergeant. His field strategies are usually extemporaneous but almost always shrewd. He affects no aloofness toward his players but is a strict disciplinarian. He is the first Cardinal manager since 1925 to last more than a year at the job. This is the first time he has managed a team in a world series...
Says Wassermann: Columbus was a poor administrator, a hopelessly lax disciplinarian. When his men had smoked so much tobacco they were unable to work, his reproof was mild. Said he: "What sort of satisfaction you can get from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever...
...strict disciplinarian, General Crosby prepared to carry "military methods" into his new job. A West Pointer (1893), a veteran campaigner in the Philippines, Mexico and France, he announced: "If there were no problems to overcome, there would be no job." When he said he would treat Prohibition like any other law to be enforced, everyone knew that he was saying exactly what the White House wanted him to say on an. issue President Hoover thinks has been unduly exaggerated. Bewailing the Hoover policy of "putting outsiders" in charge of local government, Washington citizens recalled the spectacular efforts of another military...