Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warrant corps has 1,454 men, consisting of boatswains, gunners, electricians, machinists, carpenters, sailmakers, pharmacists, pay clerks, acting pay clerks with their commissioned chiefs. Warrant officers wear officers' uniforms but have their own mess...
...cocky and tough as could be. They walked what seemed like 30 miles but people did not seem to want cabin boys any more. Most of the sea captains chuckled roughly, told them to run along home. Nearest they came to getting jobs was when one line wanted mess boys. But they had to be British subjects. That night, Henry Wetter Jr. and Phelps Newberry Jr. visited dance halls. The dance hall people did not seem to realize they were Hotchkiss men. It cost 10? even for the briefest dance. You had to buy a lot of tickets at once...
...Surely I remember travelling with the corps," replied Lieutenant Instructor Charles D. Palmer, in answer to a query of a CRIMSON reporter. "We used to get up at three o'clock in the morning, get breakfast in the mess hall, and start to the game in either motor buses or trains...
...fight centered about the several armories, police-station, and forts which dot the mainland; gunboats fought it out with land batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul...
Dinny Charwell is keeping a stiff upper lip over her late disastrous love-affair with her Byronic poet (Galsworthy enthusiasts will remember with a shudder that he was also an apostate). This time it is her sister Clare who is in a mess. After 18 months of married life she has come back from Ceylon with the news that her able husband is a sadist. On the boat home young Tony Croom has fallen in love with her. Clare's husband follows her to England, tries to make her come back with him, and when he fails, warns...