Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victorious enemy. McKinlock was with the first division as a brigade staff officer and was scouting the German lines on intelligence duty when he fell. His death did not come, however, until he had rendered important service in the winning of the first signal success of the final allied drive...
...male criticism whether they wear knickers or hoop-skirts to play golf ? Never believe it! No, but women are sick and tired of having to share golf clubs with rude men, men with fat stomachs and dirty cigars, dirtier language, boasting, conceit, overbearing attitude on the course when they drive right into women who are playing and treat us like lepers. They cannot hit decent shots or act decently. Half the time they are drunk while playing and debauch the little caddies with their stories and actions. It is to get away from all that kind of thing that...
...Insull's plan was quite simple. The new opera site abuts on broad Wacker Drive, on Market between Washington and Madison streets. It is a convenient neighborhood for business offices and is increasing rapidly in beauty. Simply surround and cap your opera auditorium and dressing-rooms with 22 stories of offices priced in proportion to the cultivated air of the building, and the rents from brokers, lawyers, insurance men, advertising agents, etc. will help audiences pay for expensive scenery, costumes, batons, temperaments, vocal chords...
...first collection of the annual Phillips Brooks House book drive which started last Wednesday will take place this afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock. The collector in each entry should, in case he will not be in his room at that time, leave any books which he may have obtained in the hall way outside his door, in order that they may be more easily collected by the book drive committee...
...transferred to the Guards and the brothers served together on the Western Front. Kenneth was killed in the fall of 1917, near Messines and his brother crept out the following night to recover the body and bury it. Lionel himself was killed on March 30, 1918, in the German drive on Amiens...