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...Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit brood (two brothers, two sisters) awake half the night. The weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Elijah *from Missoula | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Marmion,† with his 'Charge, Chester, charge; on, Stanley, on,' could die more bravely than that fragment of mouse 'consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brisbane's Mouse | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Walter Scott's poem "Marmion" (1808), valiant English battler against the Scots on Flodden Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brisbane's Mouse | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Marmion, U. S. N., President of the Naval Medical Examining Board, will lecture this evening at 8 o'clock in Room E at the Medical School on "The Inducements which the Naval Medical Service now holds out to young men under thirty years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on Naval Medical Service | 3/12/1906 | See Source »

...LECTURE. "The Inducements which the Naval Medical service now holds out to young men under thirty years of age." Medical director R. A. Marmion, U. S. N., President of the Naval Medical Examining Board. Lecture Room E, Harvard Medical School, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 3/12/1906 | See Source »

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