Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ring as a form of exercise. Five or six members of his party formed a circle, with one man in the centre as "It." A heavy medicine ball was thrown around the circle until "It" could touch it. President Hoover has now imported this game into the rear grounds of the White House where at 7 a. m. in a large black sweater and grey flannel trousers he plays it with his friends for half an hour. Bulls-in-the-ring have been : Justice Stone of the Supreme Court, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Newswriter Mark Sullivan, Presidential Physician Boone, Detective...
Then, the U.S. Coast Guard sank the British auxiliary schooner I'm Alone, and killed one of her crew, an indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone...
Retentions. President Hoover last week retained in office: Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, retired director of the U. S. Veterans Bureau; Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, retired Director of the Budget; Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, since 1921 Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics...
...Rear Admiral Charles Butler McVay Jr., budget officer of the Navy Department, will command the Asiatic fleet...
...Died. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling (retired), 85, of Baltimore, Civil War veteran, father of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commander of the Yangtze patrol of the U. S. Asiatic fleet; in Baltimore...