Word: hitching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...high. Cheer upon cheer greeted the old soldiers, the women joining their voices, waving their hand-kerchiefs and giving the veterans the "Chatauqua salute." From start to finish of the parade, indeed, the battalion was in perfect step and alignment, and the proud standards were borne aloft without a hitch by three stalwart Grand Army...
There is a trifling sub-plot of love running through the piece, beginning with the eternal triangle and ending with mutual forgiveness by husband and wife; but it is obvious that the love interest was created only to hitch the acts together. In no other way might the scene painter introduce his sets for a Manhattan drawing room, a first-line trench and a battered village of France. Besides, the plot matters little...
...drill. At about 4.45 o'clock the three majors took command of their battalions, and for the next half-hour the men were put through battalion maneuvers. At 5.30 the regiment formed across the field in line of battalions for retreat, and the impressive ceremony was performed without a hitch. Immediately afterwards the companies passed in review before Captains Cordier, Bowen, and Shannon, and then marched back to headquarters with the band...
...standing at the college office, and will start the game tomorrow. This backfield combination of Robinson, Bond, Horween and Flower has been working together ever since the first signal practice was held soon after practice began this fall, and they should carry through the plays today without a hitch. Horween has also had much varsity experience, having played in the Princeton and Yale games last fall...
...career, comes to the college student, it seems to me, not so much in the handicap it gives him in the race for the goal of success as in the advantage it brings by setting in the firmament of his hopes and aspirations a star to which he may hitch his wagon. The early choice of a profession furnishes a definite aim, a direct road, a basis for concentration...