Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fault was not that of the usher. He had reported to the marshal as soon as the doors were opened, had been immediately assigned to an aisle in the first gallery, and almost before he could hang us his coat had been swamped by a rush of spectators. Then he discovered that the seats were numbered as no seats ever were numbered before. A lightning calculation could not have figured out the location of any one seat; a search was necessary--like that for the needle in a haystack. For example--in the first gallery the seats in sections...
...meeting of the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held recently, Harry Nadell '22, of Paterson, N. J., was elected First Marshal. William Thomas Salter 1M., of Milton, was elected Second Marshal. Both offices are purely honorary...
...reported of Marshal Foch that once, as he was standing with General Pershing and many of the leaders of the British and French armies, someone asked him how he proposed to turn back the apparently irresistible Teuton and conduct his final campaign. Without a word the Marshal, stooping over, drew with his cane in the dust of the roadway the plan of battle which was to end in victory the following November...
...than three years have passed since that day, but the world still remembers. The genius of a mind able to direct unhesitatingly so stupendous and varying a project is not soon to be forgotten. Whether banqueting in Chicago, applauding at New Haven, or saluting from the steps of Widener, Marshal Foch is assured of the pride and reverence with which Americans receive...
Harvard has been visited by fighters of all sorts; politicians, orators, those who use the pen, and those who man the guns. We have even already made the acquaintance of one Marshal of France. But after today we will know that we have been honored in welcoming the greatest of them...