Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artists including Cyrena van Gordon, Efrem Zimbalist. Josef Hofmann, Edith Mason, Alice Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark, N. J. June opens the summer opera season at St. Louis-light opera favorites such as The Chocolate Soldier, The Bohemian Girl. On June 22 begins the famed summer season at rustic Ravinia Park, near Chicago, with Impresario Louis Eckstein giving a classical repertoire with Metropolitan Opera stars until Labor Day. July. The twelfth season of outdoor concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, The Bronx, N. Y., starts July 5, lasting until...
...night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot; Jeb Stuart decorated with a rose, wound in a yellow silk sash; and John Worsham, a foot soldier with Stonewall Jackson in the Great Valley...
...daggers sharp, Latin temperament turns law clerk into general, army-sergeant into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to the canon of the cathedral. That was powerfully to his advantage; but his friendship for Sergeant Domingo, ancient soldier-philosopher, was to more immediate purpose. For Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked for his own. With the general Rafael drove, laudably, a bargain: give him and Vitoria one night undisturbed and on the morrow he, Rafael, would...
...there came to Riker Motor Vehicle Co., of Elisabethport, N. J., (early auto makers) a young man recently returned from the Spanish War. This Johnny Who Had Come Marching Home wanted a job-salary requested, $14 weekly. Openhanded, the Riker people gave him $15. Last week the onetime soldier became president of Hudson Motor Car Co. He is William J. McAneeny, now president both of Hudson and of its allied Essex. Coming to Hudson in 1909, as purchasing agent, he advanced rapidly, was made first Essex president when the company was formed (1918). President McAneeny succeeds the late...
...equaled by the latter's wrath at finding his paint box exhausted in the interests of embryonic art. Such attention must be significant whether deserved or not. It was not so long ago that the long, long haired sister expressed a preference for the military buttons of the soldier boy. The present comment is at lest an indication of the fact that the same benevolent attention is bestowed upon the irresponsibilities of the big brother. Fortunately or unfortunately, circumstances have intervened to absolve him of his guilt, since the participants referred to in the above scornful condemnation were not Harvard...