Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drizzle that became a downpour at Soldier Field, Chicago, Northwestern and Notre Dame slipped and fumbled to a scoreless tie. The game spoiled the Notre Dame record of 20 victories in a row against the best teams in the U. S., gave Northwestern its first tie against Notre Dame since...
...Sept. 28, Oct. 5), Dr. Clarence True Wilson, goateed general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, made speeches in St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo. Said he: "Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken orgies in defiance of the laws the men as soldiers had taken an oath of allegiance to support. . . . The ex-soldier who will [disobey the law], and practically all of them did in Detroit, is a perjured scoundrel who ought not to represent the decency of the flag under which he fought. . . . There was a marked absence of the sober...
...flourishing for more than a month. Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company played to full houses all summer in Manhattan (TIME, May 18), then went on the road, leaving in its place a troupe which has been doing- fairly well with The Merry Widow and The Chocolate Soldier (TIME, Sept. 21). Aborn's Mikado opened in Boston last month beginning a four-week repertory engagement at the Colonial Theatre. It was booked by the Erlangers. Xo warm friends of the Erlangers are the Shuberts. They formed a rival company, called it "The Bostonians" after the famed troupe...
...Chatterton have been too much of a piece to afford a full display of her prowess, and it is too bad that at a time when she sadly needs cooperation she should be made the victim of a tenth-rate story. "The Magnificent Lie" tells of a shell-shocked soldier, who loses his sight years after the war, and believes that the actress he loved overseas has come to visit him. She hasn't, of course, and Miss Chatterton, as a singer in a low resort, undertakes to help the soldier retain his illusion. Finally, the deception is discovered...
...Washington was sweltering. Tempers were short. Discarding forensic veneer, speaking "as one soldier to another." the veteran of Château-Thierry and Soissons said: "What I have to say is that there is a little uneasiness in this country about the American Legion. I can't imagine anything more ridiculous than for you to go down to Detroit with a program of relief for the whole country and at the same time hold out a tin cup. If you do that you will be laughed at. And I say that as a man in favor of the Bonus legislation...