Word: olympias
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...rain at Washington Navy Yard a party of Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department by droopy-mustached Secretary Claude A. Swanson, in Atlanta by the Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Iowa-born Admiral William D. Leahy. But seadogs old & young, already convinced that Roosevelt II is Navy...
Joseph G. Allen, Huntington, West Virginia; Gordon E. Jones, Olympia, Washington; Charles W. Hayden, Kansas City, Missouri; Ferdinand F. McAllister, Brooklyn, New York; John E. Adams, Berkeley, California; Samuel E. Elmore Jr., Spindale, North Carolina; Henry B. Ruley, Louisville, Kentucky; Robert P. Tucker, Charleston, South Carolina; Lucio E. Gatto, Cambridge,; Charles H. Horndon, Dublin, Texas...
...Orleans on three successive nights in September 1892, the old Olympia Sporting Club exhibited the world championship lightweight, featherweight and heavyweight boxers in bouts defending their titles. That famous occasion is still remembered because on the third night James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan...
...wrong twice. Mme Bradna told me at a cocktail party recently that she and her husband had a trained dog act. Had Olympe been born of a bareback rider immediately after a performance, it would have been picturesque indeed! Secondly, the theatre is the well-known Olympia...
...valuable possession is in the steel respirator in that room. I told him that all my dollars might as well be wooden, if not devoted to saving his life." Mindful of friends at home, Father Snite, a devout Catholic who sponsors an annual Knights of Columbus golf tournament at Olympia Fields near Chicago every July, is bringing back 1,000 Chinese umbrellas to give to players as they...