Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Engelbert Dollfuss got his fill of mountains. He served 37 months at the front (six times as much active service as the average U. S. soldier saw), won himself a string of decorations and the edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant.* Considering his peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents, this promotion, in the extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef, was a notable achievement. For months at a time Lieut. Dollfuss and his men held a tiny valley in the Dolomites against the Italian advance. Natives near Trent still call it Dollfussthal (Dollfuss Valley...
...been Medicine's failure to transmit encephalitis among experimental monkeys, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Last week Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital cautiously suggested that man alone may be susceptible to epidemic encephalitis. In Baton Rouge, La., Herbert Brown, tuberculous ex-soldier, promptly offered himself as a human subject. Said he: "I cannot hope to be an old man. I cannot work and would like to do something useful for the world before...
...last year's team in the lineup; 13 to 7, largely because of a brilliant performance by Michigan's Harry Newman, who returned punts for a total of 84 yd., threw a short pass to Ronzani of Marquette for the winning touchdown; under floodlights, in Soldier Field, Chicago. ¶Cecil Smith, famed cowboy poloist: the case brought against him by Nurse Eugenia Rose of the Evanston, Ill. Hospital, who accused him of raping her in a ravine; when she withdrew her charges; in Evanston. Nurse Rose's reason: "I expect to be married and do not want...
Chicago's Century of Progress revealed only a minimum of progress musically until late in August. Then it went vocal in the largest way, with two huge musical spectacles and promise of more to come. In Soldier Field the Chicago Tribune staged its fourth annual Chicagoland Music Festival, a nocturnal orgy of community singing and bandplaying, polished off with a prodigious display of fireworks. Though rival newspapers enthusiastically ignored the festival, it was a thumping spectacle such as visitors at fairs love to see. Some 85,000 spectators vigorously applauded as Bandmaster Arthur Pryor directed massed bands through favorite...
Four days after the Tribune's splurge. 40 trainloads of Texans celebrated Texas Day at the Fair and attended a Texan production of Aida in Soldier Field. Like the Festival, the production of Aida also had an angel. Texas newspapers reported that it was music-loving Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, who acquired his first banking job and his wife in Texas. But Banker Traylor denied this, did not attend the performance (he was out of town). Real sponsor of the production was wealthy Mrs. John Wesley Graham, head of the Texas Music Teachers Association. Said she: "I expect...