Word: regarder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Officers' Training Camps especially, because they must report for duty on January 5, 1918, several weeks before the last of the official mid-year examinations. The special ones will really begin late in December and extend through the first few days of January, although no official statement in regard to the exact time has as yet been issued. Men who wish to take these tests will be given an opportunity to make application to the office later...
...mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery of the Mexican Christmas flower. "Shade of Linnaeus!" What plant is this? We doubt if the avid soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story is light, very light, and judged by the standard...
...soothing effect on one's sense of proportion; furthermore, and happily, "those who are," at headquarters realize that the Illustrated can be the Illustrated and still contain reading matter. There is a faint touch of the latter by the presence of Professor Cestre's sincere warning, faint touch in regard to the quantity of the article which in quality and significance is more akin to smashing contact...
...represented the finest type of young American manhood, the type that reflects the greatest credit upon our country. He had won the highest regard of all with whom he had been brought in contact. He was an ideal soldier, gay, gallant, and ever ready for duty...
Captain Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is known among authors, will speak upon some subject connected with the war and with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front...