Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Room of the White House funeral services were held over the body of the President's Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Then President & Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied their late friend on a special train to Fall River, Mass., where he was buried, hurried back to Washington...
...joke to Britain's General Staff is the failure of the current recruiting campaign, because modern armies are twice as complex as those of 1914, it takes twice as long to train an efficient soldier. Since the announcement of new plans to mechanize the British cavalry, troopers have been scratching their heads over engine diagrams, the intricacies of caterpillar treads and short-wave wireless. Even the infantry has had to struggle with such new devices as the Boys rifle, a ponderous blunderbuss that weighs 35 lb., fires a 5-in. cartridge through the steel walls of tanks...
...revulsion and beguilement. He is known as "The Monster," and from the moment in court when he gives in rhapsodic language the reasons for the kiss, his fortune is made. The theatrical manager (Roland Young) who discharged him from a production in which he played the part a train dispatcher now arranges a musical comedy which duplicates the behavior of Philippe on the night of the kiss...
...England. Elvira settles herself to lie on the bed she has made, then suddenly realizes that Oliver is an inconstant bedfellow, goes home to her husband after all. When Oliver decides he is through with Paris too, Marpurgo encourages his departure, for more reasons than one. On the boat train Oliver, by now an incorrigible ladies' man, meets another girl...
...strongest interest, and he believes that public discussion is the foundation of any adult program. Last week in a little book called Plain Talk,* he wistfully told what he would do if the U. S. Government were to allot him $70,000,000 for experimental purposes. He would train 10,000 forum leaders, set them to leading 50,000 forums a week all over...