Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing $4,500,000 for a memorial highway to Mount Vernon...
...which took place between an Exalted Personage and one Albert Rowlands, laborer, employed by the Office of Public Works. Scene: near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful...
General McCoy will return to Nicaragua to supervise on Nov. 4, 1928, in the name of the U. S., a Nicaraguan parliamentary election. Last week a detachment of Marines under Captain Robert S. Hunter were finally able to locate some of the elusive Sandinistas near Mount Pena Blanca. Result: Captain Hunter and Corporal William L. Williamson were killed, as were five Nicaraguans. The most lofty concept of what the U. S. is accomplishing in Nicaragua was recently voiced by U. S. Marine Corps Commander Major General John A. ("Leatherneck") Lejeune. Said he: "The Nicaraguan people need help, and the Marines...
...Virginia Mount Vernon Road...
...their most delightful these concerts that belong to the University alone. When the Yard has not long been green, and the first truly warm nights of spring have come, then the Glee Club sings to the sons of Harvard scattered over the grass beneath the elms until they too mount the broad steps and join in the full throated chorus of "Fair Harvard...