Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First British ship torpedoed by Germans in World War I was a warboat, the scout Pathfinder, more than one month after hostilities began...
...miles North, where he had gone after a brief inspection trip to Tientsin. He replied by 1) ordering the Pillsbury to remain, 2) dispatching another destroyer, the Pope, to the spot. The British seconded the U. S. by not only keeping the Thanet at Swatow but by sending the Scout to join her. Nothing happened to the ships, nor to any of the U. S. or British nationals ashore...
...salutes were as varied as the uniforms. The Nazis gave the Nazi salute; the Army men made a military salute; Life Party members made a tentative gesture similar to that used to catch a waiter's eye; and Premier Count Paul Teleki, chief of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, gave the three-fingered Boy Scout salute. Chief business of the opening session: a speech by Count Teleki in which he announced that Deputies' rights to speak would be curtailed...
Handsome Spangler Arlington Brugh, 27, got into the movies when a scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...
...dark, handsome Robert, not yet 20, put on his Boy Scout uniform, went out and held up a drugstore, took $14. He was identified and caught, sentenced to a reformatory. Mr. Burgunder began to suspect that there was a kink in his son's mind...