Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genius cannot be bound by engagements collegiate or marital. One appointment, however, that the Vagabond will not fail to meet, is with Professor C.K. Webster this morning at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This is rather a large place for a tete-a-tete, but a regiment of students will be there to watch the Professor and the Vagabond discuss the Origins of the World...
...Secretary of State at the London Naval Conference burlesqued as Alice in Wonderland, his National Republican Chairman consigned to political limbo, to hear John Philip Sousa lead the Marine band in a rousing new Sousa March dedicated to Britain's Royal Welch Fusiliers. It was this regiment which joined the U. S. Marines in lifting the Boxer siege of Tientsin (1900) and helping to rescue Herbert Hoover, engineer...
...that Crane's The Open Boat is "the finest short story in the English language." Tall, lean, with very straight hair, hollow eyes, drooping mustache. Author Crane moved, smiled, spoke slowly. He died of consumption at Baden, Germany, in 1900. Other books: George's Mother, The Little Regiment, The Monster...
...Welch' referred us somehow to the antique North Wales of Henry Tudor and Owen Glendower and Lord Herbert Cherbury, the founder of the regiment; it dissociated us from the modern North Wales of chapels, liberalism, the dairy and drapery business, Lloyd George, and the tourist trade...
...undertake the task efficiently, reorganization of the Coast Artillery was planned. Undermanned, undermonied, cuffed about as a useless military appendage, the service since the War has suffered from lack of facilities for training, practice. Corrective plans: to organize a new (69th) Coast Artillery anti-aircraft regiment ; to concentrate personnel for training and practice at five posts* where all facilities will be available; to leave skeletonized crews in other posts to oil unused armaments...