Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lansbury, George, irascible Commissioner of Works, England's veteran radical. White-haired, with clipped mutton-chop whiskers, he is a teetotaler, a nonsmoker, and was twice imprisoned...
...rest of the Alumni team is composed of men who made their mark deep in Harvard athletics. J. P. Chase '28, who will play shortstop, was a hockey and baseball veteran for three years and captained the hockey team in his senior year; E. C. Lincoln '22 was a three-year regular on the nine; F. B. Cutts '28 was the man who as relief pitcher in his junior and senior years chalked up three victories over Yale; Wilmot Whitney '16 and L. F. Young '23 were leading hurlers of their day; and finally Richard Harte '17 was a three...
...Louis. During the War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regular Army, won the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism" in operations at Baulny and Chaudron Farm, France, Sept. 29-30, 1917. He became an Assistant Secretary of War in 1923, was the first World War army veteran to be advanced to the head of that department...
Yesterday the first eight was minus the services of W. T. Emmet '29, veteran No. 7, who is being given a short rest. His place was taken by James Lawrence, Jr. '29, bow oar, and the crew was stroked by Harrison. R. L. Vaughn '31 came up from the class crew squad to fill in at bow. The eights paddled separately from the Perkins Institute to the Newell Boathouse, a distance of about three and one half miles. The beat was kept low for most of the distance but was raised gradually to the high 30's at the finish...
Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...