Word: sams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inexorable rule of the Army, fit as he is, he must retire on Sept. 13, at the age limit of 64. No more the khaki and the Sam Brown belt. Dressed like plain John Citizen, the baker, the butcher, the politician and the banker, he will go his way modest ly in mufti. Ofttimes, doubtless, he will yearn for his military life, its punctilio and its elan. But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and John Jo seph Pershing likes it for its unyieldingness...
...came to believe that there was something mystical about a Brownie. Perhaps there was. I can remember spending hours as a child curled in a huge red armchair with bound volumes of St. Nicholas, reveling in the pranks of the Brownies, the Indian, the policeman, the sailor, Uncle Sam. What a strange contrast, to be sure, were these tiny beings, to the massive Mr. Cox, who was six feet two, broad-shouldered, lumbering, powerful. When I saw him two years ago, he still gave the impression of a man of great strength...
...Uncle Sam's island possessions, planes must be like the Marines? ready to fight on land or water. The Army Air Service has therefore long sought for an efficient amphibious airplane for its coastal stations in Hawaii and the Philippines. This has now been provided by Grover C. Loening, President of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation of New York City, designer of the Loening flying yacht and organizer of last year's shortlived air line from New York to Newport. After long development and secret tests, the Army has placed an order for ten of these remarkable all-purpose airplanes...
Montana sent up Mayor Maloney, of Butte, to second Smith. He was too hoarse to speak and Chairman Walsh was obliged to announce what Mr. Maloney would have, if he could have been understood. Then Sam V. Stewart of the same State seconded McAdoo on behalf of "seven-eighths of the delegation...
Near St. Mark's is Luchow's restaurant. Last week it was the scene of a great dinner-mock turtle soup, roast chicken, ice cream. Among the diners, besides Bishop Manning and several judges, were "The Millionaire Kid," "Sam the Scratcher," "Hotel Bill," "Little Gyp" and their friends. They are members of the Marshall Stillman Movement-all of them bad men and bad women who, in spite of having gone to prison, have decided to go straight. They presented the Bishop with $100, every dime of which had been collected from people whose Vater-land had once been...