Word: road
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the head of the Main Body reached the railroad crossing at Concord avenue, near Bay State road, Col. Cordier received information that hostile patrols had been sighted in the vicinity of Spy Pond. He immediately notified the Commanding Officer of the Advance Guard of this information, and the latter at once despatched an officer's patrol to reconnoitre in that direction. This occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need...
Aside from its instructive value, the road work provides physical exercise suitable for a Sunday afternoon. An invigorating breath of air and the inspiration of the military band tempt even the most phlegmatic nature; and the actual marching will not cover more than an hour...
...Wheeler of London, whom Sir Gilbert Murray, the noted translator, terms the most marvelous reader of Greek tragedy he has ever heard, will recite the Medea of Euripides at Parkway Hall, Larch road (near Fresh Pond), this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Tickets at $1 may be secured at the door. Proceeds of the reading will be given to the French Relief Fund...
...Wheeler will read the "Medea" of Euripides at Parkway Hall. Larch road...
...Sweetser went by bicycle from the Belgian border to Paris, a journey which he describes vivaciously, making real his many exciting experiences on the road. It is a vivid picture of the war, its ravages, and the men and women near it. As a story full of interest Mr. Sweetser's volume holds us to the last, for he seems to have put a good deal of his own charming personality into the tale, and we often feel that we are by his side. From the very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill...