Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After losing five games in a row, the University lacrosse team staged a rally on Saturday afternoon at Soldier's Field and routed Dartmouth by a score of 10 to 3. The Crimson's first victory came easily, with little threatening from the inexperienced Green, which was playing its first game of the season...
...called new movement in music in Boston. For attention is being entered tonight on music written for the most part for small combinations of instruments, music which has rarely been heard previously. Works like the "Octet" by Stravinsky, and portions of the same composer's "Story of a Soldier"; songs by a young German modernist, Hindemith and above all, the very famous work for reciting voice and instruments, "Dierrot Lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg, which has created a sensation in other cities where the movement has been stirring. The concert is organized under the auspices of the Camber Music Society...
John Buchan according to the jacket, is the "greatest romancer since Stevenson," and is a veritable jack-of-all trades, combining the activities of "lawyer, soldier, business man, novelist, historian, essayist, poet, and member of the parliament." At any rate, it is reasonable to infer that Mr. Buchan is an intelligent man of considerable good taste, shrewdness, and literary ability. In "The Half-Hearted", there is nothing to make the reader believe the contrary...
...hero who surprised Paulus Hook, N. J., and was awarded a gold medal. The blood of Lionel Lee who fought with Richard Coeur de Lion ran in his veins. He hankered early for a military life and was devoted to his mother, who raised her boy to be a soldier...
West Point training was followed by fire-baptism in the Mexican War, where heroic service at Cerro Gordo, Contreras-Churubusco and Chapultepec led General Scott to designate young Lee "the greatest living soldier in America." Engineer work in Washington and Baltimore taught him to construct defenses, a knowledge which was to serve him well. For three years he superintended West Point...