Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John B. Pierce, Jr., William S. Pilling 2nd, John T. Potter, Richard T. Rives, Jr., John J. Shea, L. Edwin Smart, Jr., Sidney O. Smith, Jr., D. Graham-Smyth, Billy S. Sparks, Sinclair Weeks, Jr., Robert L. Winter 2nd, Malcolm Wood Jr., and Bruce H. Zeiser...
...have been nominated by petition: Stuart C. Davidson, Donald S. Gair, William F. Ganong, Haris G. Hachman, Lucien L. Kinsolving, Donor M. Lion, Richard F. Mccarthy, George H. Montgomery, James R. Murphy, Jewett F. Nelley, Jr., William S. Pilling 2nd, John T. Potter, L. Edwin Smart, Jr. D. Grahame Smyth, and Bruce H. Zeiser...
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was an empire builder of the Kipling school. All set to enter Oxford at the age of 19, he took a crack at the Army examinations for a lark, finished second out of 700 and wound up as a subaltern in the 13th Hussars in India. An expert at reconnaissance, he served with the 13th in the Afghan War in 1881. On service in Zululand he won the name of Impeesa (The Wolf that Never Sleeps) from the awed natives, moved on to Ashanti and Matabeleland. By the time of the Boer...
Fortnight ago beefy (collar size: 17) Queens County Court Deputy Clerk Thomas J. Smyth boarded a Long Island train (non-air-conditioned) to ride to his job. It was a hot morning; he sweated, squirmed, took off his coat, exposed a clean white shirt to the cinder-covered seats. At his office he changed shirts, sent the dirty one to the Long Island's claims agent, requested that it be laundered. "If this cannot be done," wrote he, "I donate the shirt for use as an oil rag in one of your repair shops...
...agent sent the shirt to a Y. M. C. A. for laundering, charged off 15? to claims. Last week Needier Smyth's shirt, returned without comment, was back on his back. Said he: "A businessman is entitled to arrive at his destination reasonably clean...