Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposes making the Lieutenants, Majors; the Sergeants, First Lieutenants; giving each $10,000 and a Congressional Medal of Honor. The War Department, announcing a list of belated citations for gallantry in the Spanish American War, named Lieut. John J. Pershing (now General retired) to be honored with a silver star. The frigate Constitution, several times near destruction, saved once by Oliver Wendell Holmes' Old Ironsides, is suffering from the decay of age. Rear Admiral de Steiguer made it known that Secretary of the Navy Wilbur meditates calling on the children of the Nation for pennies to save her again...
Benito Mussolini, indefatigable Premier of Italy, did his star turn again. Having secured a vote of confidence on his foreign policy from the Deputies (TIME, Nov. 24), another on his domestic policy (TIME, Dec. 1), having told the Fascisti that there must henceforward be "silent work, perfect discipline, and no individual or collective violence," and having received the taciturn acceptance of his commands in the spirit of "disciplined silence," Benito went to the Senate...
...backfield of Pond, Slagle, and Gehrke can be announced with apologies to no one. The second team choice is more difficult. Kline rivalled Pond in the Harvard-Yale game. Klevenow was a star with Middlebury, and he would have been a greater star on a greater team. Keefer was one of the flashiest ball carriers in the Stadium all fall. These three men were finally picked, with apologies to the entire Dartmouth trio, two or three Princeton backs, one or two from Brown, Allen and Scott of Yale, Glennon and Crowley of Holy Cross, and any others who may feel...
...York City before 700 students of the drama, working under Professor Clayton Hamilton of Columbia University. It was the result of eight weeks of intensive work, done all in spare moments and while "Cyrano de Bergerac" was scoring its great New York success. Mr. Walter Hampden, the producer and star of "Cyrano" aided the actors with advice and criticism...
There were some new additions to the forward ranks of the squad which had not been foreseen. These included R. L. Pruyn '27, former Captain at St. Paul's school, ineligible last year because of scholastic difficulties, and Willard Howard '27, former Middlesex star, who was also unable to play Freshman hockey...