Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Kate Meek, 87, actress, "for more than 60 years a notable figure in the American theatre"; in New York City. She was the Elsie Janis of Civil War soldier-entertainment. After the War, she supported Edwin Booth and others of the renowned Ford's Theatre Stock Company in Baltimore. For 19 years she was employed by the late Charles Frohman. She supported Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, John Drew, William Gillette, Otis Skinner, Billie Burke. She last appeared in 1913, with Alia Nazimova, in The Marionettes...
Mourning thousands stood tense and sorrow-stricken in the rays of the setting sun. All eyes were bent upon impromptu catafalque where lay the body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra...
...Harvey J. Howard, American kidnapped by bandits in Manchuria (TIME, July 27) was located in a bandit camp. An emissary of General Feng, Chinese Christion soldier, went forth to negotiate for his release-saying it might take a month...
...Governor's Island, N. Y., the 16th Infantry marched in parade. Three soldiers reviewed the regiment. One was Charles P. Summerall, the second was Stanley Ford, the third was Louis F. de Fost. Mr. Summerall is Major General in command of the Second Corps Area. Mr. Ford is Colonel of the 16th. Soldier de Fost is a Private in Company D of the 16th...
...Riff, and, desiring a better frontier for his State, as he calls it, he warred against the French. It has been said that he attacked the French to force a resettlement of Morocco; this is probably true; but it made necessary a larger army. The question of soldiers was something Abd-el-Krim never had to worry about. The fame of his victories spread far and wide with considerable exaggeration. Gradually the various tribes began to look upon him as the soldier of Islam who was taking up the sword against the infidel Spanish and French. Abd-el-Krim...