Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington on insular business, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico called in the Press, gave them a glowing report on conditions in the island, belittled recent disturbances, ducked any direct mention of the Tydings bill. Said this onetime soldier: "The past two years in Puerto Rico have been free of serious trouble. Too much publicity has been given to the assassination of Colonel Riggs. . . . The relations between private employers and employes are of the best. There is no rift between Capital and Labor on the island; there never has been and there never will...
Although Princeton's highly touted rugby fifteen rushed into an early lead in the first three minutes of the game Saturday at Soldier's Field, the Crimson booters succeeded in tying and passing the Tigers in the first half...
...very close contest between the two outstanding college rugby teams of the East is expected at 3:15 o'clock today when Harvard, undefeated in three games, and Princeton, with a record of five straight victories and no defeats, clash at Soldier's Field...
Freddie Bartholomew, 11, George Arliss of child actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...
...efforts to do so started in disgraceful failure. In the first big match he staged, Paulino Uzcudun knocked out an overrated Canadian named Soldier Jones in two minutes. To rehabilitate himself Promoter Dickson put Paulino into the ring against an English fighter named Harry Drake. Boxer Drake was so terrified at the sight of his bronzed opponent from the Pyrenees that it took several handlers to push him into the ring. There was a quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine...