Word: uniformally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Honus ("Hans") Wagner, onetime Pittsburgh baseball Titan, has entered politics. Last week, large placards appeared about Pittsburgh bear- ing the words: FOR SHERIFF*−J. HANS WAGNER. There was a picture of Honus in the uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Each spring, Wagner once more dons his uniform, plays "sandlot" ball. If the sheriffalty does not prevent, he is expected to play this year with the "Elks" of the Allegheny County (Pa.) League...
Gaston Doumergue, President of France and Grand Master of the Order of the Legion of Honor, was received by General Dubail, Grand Chancellor; General Nollet, Minister of War; Marshals of France Foch and Joffre, in full-dress uniform, U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, in full evening dress, when he arrived at the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the Quai d'Orsay...
Samuel S. Childs, with ten other Childs children, was born on a meagre New Jersey farm near Bernardsville, where all his relatives now live in handsome houses on a shiny street called Childs Avenue. He, as a boy, desired to, wear the uniform of his country, and with this end in view entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, changed his mind, became a civil engineer, left engineering, entered the service of one Alfred W. Dennett, restaurant proprietor...
...beautifully done and printed with the page of the original at the left, balanced by the English version at the right. They are not all new translations. Some are themselves classics, as, for example, Apuleius' Golden Ass in the version which William Adlington made in 1566. No uniform edition of the classics has ever before been attempted on such a scale. The annual loss, a large one, is borne by Mr. Loeb. He, when he had retired from active business to devote himself to literary and archaeological studies, translated two classic dramas from the French...
...which he carried under his arm. "C'est le rol George." "Non, non," re- sponded another, "c'est I'ambassadeur britannique." "Je vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation. Out of the car stepped a man dressed in the sky-blue uniform of a French officer; on his head was a cap with a dome en- circled by hoops of gold. Evidently he was a Marshal of France. The crowd, surer of its ground, instantly recognized the Marshal and the air became thick with Vive le marechal! Five le generalissime...