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Then a scout contest was held for "stunts." First prize was given to a skit, Mr. Everyman Gets a Wife in 1936 (Everyman picked a Girl Scout because she could cook). Second prize went to a troop that built a log cabin, a foot bridge and a campfire in three minutes. A troop of young Negresses was honored for portraying a Girl Scout giving her seat to an old man in a street car, another troop for showing Girl Scouts rescuing flappers lost in the woods, a third troop for depicting "the wreck of the 20th Century...
Events poured like a torrent from that decision.* Within a few hours the Marshal's throaty telephone commands brought regiment after regiment at the double. As Pilsudski, eyes aflame, tugging at his drooping mustache, neared Warsaw, President Wojciechowski, personally commanding a troop of soldiers still loyal to the Government, barred his way at the entrance to a long bridge. Imperious Pilsudski demanded the resignation of the Witos Cabinet, the formation of a Cabinet largely Socialist. Since the President's troops were outnumbered, he could offer no more defiance than to refuse the demand, hastily retreat to the Belnedere...
During the Boer War "Winnie" Churchill once encouraged a troop of sadly outnumbered British Tommies by shouting: "Keep cool, men! Think what copy this will make for my paper...
...been executed by military authorities. President Calles insisted that he had been tried, condemned and executed as a train robber. Senator Moses, however, did not like the look of the whole proceeding, especially since it was said in some quarters that the train Torres had "robbed" was a troop train carrying Calles' forces. So the extradition treaty waited...
...moments later the aristocratic huntsmen were surrounded by a troop of raggety men who vowed that they were huntsmen top. Two of their number sported their masters' cast off hunting costumes. One of them rode an old broken down mare. All of them had flagrantly violated the first canon of fox-hunting good form by equipping themselves with rifles! To a true British aristocrat any other method of killing a fox than allowing the dogs to tear all of it but the "brush" to tatters smacks of sacrilege. One of the ladies of the Union Hunt Club loudly declared that...