Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Franklin Buchanan, probably named after the late great Ben Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore...
...himself until the Trojans had one score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick to where his side could use it. Southern California 27, Washington State 7. Half a dozen admirals and the entire corps of Annapolis midshipmen saw the Navy line dam Dartmouth and the Navy backfield use a short forward pass-Gannon to Kirn-to upset the odds, 13-6. Cornell's off-tackle smash had Penn in trouble, but not long. Gentle and Masters threw passes to each other like basketball forwards. Masters...
...year's first snow stimulated numerous midshipmen. Navy 30, West Va. Wesleyan...
...sincere belief that Princeton lost to the Navy in the final contest of the 1928 football campaign not because her team was outclassed by the Annapolis eleven, but because her nominal adherents in the stands were effectively taken out by a vociferous and enthusiastic corps of midshipmen...
...usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat and calm in full formal morning wear. Midshipmen from the Japanese warboats were reviewed on the south lawn. Followed a luncheon, with the Secretaries of State and the Navy present. Then, after an elapsed time of 1 hr. 40 min., back in the executive offices appeared the sack-suited president...