Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild Ellsworth, Kans., to wilder Hays City, where little Miguel saw Wild Bill Hickok kill one man, heard stories of his killing three more. He moved them from wicked Sheridan to the hunters' paradise of Kit Carson, at a time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains and towns. Merchant Otero put his sons in boarding school, but they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting...
...great part of the West's liquor supply tied up when the Whiskey Ring fraud exposures led to government seizure of his father's liquor stores. He went on the famed buffalo hunt of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, when the special escort, commanded by Generals Sheridan and Custer, included the West's most distinguished plainsmen. A master of understatement, Author Otero barely mentions the fact that after he received an appointment to Annapolis, at the age of 15, he escaped to St. Louis, made his father's agents there return him to the West...
...certain suspicion and disdain. Socially ambitious, he has never been accepted in Washington society's inner circle. But many a Washingtonian, including members of the Gridiron Club whom he entertains every year, is glad to attend the large and elaborate dinners he gives in his home on swank Sheridan Circle. Sentimental, warmhearted, likable, democratic, he is president of Washington's Alfalfa Club (men's dining), onetime president of the Washington Community Chest. Still frail in health, his only hobby is collecting first editions, rare copies, manuscripts of English and U. S. literary works. Last week he acquired...
...have the honor to inform you that you have been selected for appointment as a cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and you are, therefore, authorized by the Secretary of War to present yourself before a board of officers at Fort Sheridan, Ill. on the fifth day of March, before 9 o'clock a. m., for mental and physical examination...
...team's intercollegiate record this year consisted of Army and Princeton games; the first of these was won by the West Pointers 14-4, the second by the Tigers 8-7 1-2. At chicago last week Harvard beat Ft. Sheridan...