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Officers of the Continental Army: C. D. Coady '27, N. B. Lee '28, L. L. Wallingsford '28, r. P. MacFadden '26, H. B. Jackson '27, and K. D. Maun '26. Minute Men: R. H. Sanger '28, Standard Bearer, N. G. Hesse '27, Drummer, and W. C. Harris '28, Fife...
...which is on them, though I bet he don't know half the brave stuff she does. Have you ever here her talk to a cop. I said once Alma was your old man in the army or was he a pug and she said neither he was a drummer. Can you beat that? ha. ha heard a bouncer once say to her Watch your dancing and she said to him, Watch it yourself and maybe you will lern sum thing. Ha. Ha. Well I must drop the winged word and aplie the moistened pickture. Asever, Clara...
When he cried, his nursery maid, a former sutler, used to bellow at him: "Silence in the company!" When he went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
Undoubtedly, such publications are now unfortunately extreme. They cannot be defended in their gross descents into pornography. Though vulgar they are rarely vicious. The moral they ostensibly convey, however inartistic, is usually above reproach. Only a few which contain rehashed drummer's tales and ribald witticisms are coarse. The pseudo-art magazines despite their unmistakably sexual appeal may not be without some value in creating a whole some frankness...
...William Fitch of Little Rock, Ark. He was moved to take this step after hearing her sing, in a childish treble, "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." Mrs. Fitch, a shrill-voiced and bony-handed woman, taught her the words of hymns, while the dominie, who had been a drummer in the Civil War, instructed her in music. Both, with passionate fervor, spanked...