Word: mare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...30th festival ushered in the greatest of the Pasadena pageants, "The Victory Tournament." A military spirit pervaded the day. Parades of soldiers, long lines of be-garlanded guns comprised the major part of the morning exercises, while in the afternoon a Mare Island team of marines struggled manfully but in vain against an eleven from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
After 10 months convoy service on the U. S. S. South Dakota, Lieutenant Vedder was put in charge of the Officers' School for Service Afloat at the Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia. Three months later he was detailed to the main post of the Marine Corps as an instructor at Mare Island, California...
...This class is now one of three such schools in the United States, the others being at Mare Island, Cal., and Brooklyn, N. Y. The members of the class are all regularly enrolled members of the United States Naval Reserve, and the class is composed, of men from the University, Dartmouth, Rhode Island State, Amherst, and other colleges...
...work, he displays much of that "witty delicacy" which so many of the younger English poets today have derived from Andrew Marvell and others of the 17th century. In point of style, he may already be classed with writers like Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, and Walter de la Mare. With a little more intensity of mood, he might even suggest Ralph Hodgson, for he has at times a distinct trace of Hodgson's mystical vision. But the closest resemblance of all, in this particular poem, is to James Stephens, of whom there is a very good reminder in the touch...
...Foundation of the Ottoman Empire"; W. W. Gibson, "Battle and Other Poems" and "Livelihood"; J. F. Harris, "Samuel Butler"; W. H. Hudson, "The Purple Land"; H. H. Knibbs, "Riders of the Stars"; E. H. Knows, "Play Production in America"; G. H. Mair, "Modern English Literature"; W. de la Mare, "The Listeners and Other Poems"; A. B. Maurice, "The New York of the Novelists"; Helen McAfee, "Pepys on the Restoration Stage"; Patrick McGill, "The Red Horizon"; E. P. Oppenheim, "The Hillman"; Arthur H. Quinn, "Representative American Plays"; Thomas H. Reed, "Form and Functions of American Government"; Elliott Richards, "Julia Ward Howe...