Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is a man of 69, with upright carriage and snapping eye, such as become a veteran who has campaigned in Zululand, Ashanti, Matabeleland, at Mafeking, in the Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...
...William M. Butler and former-Senator David I. Walsh for election to the U. S. Senate were simultaneously opened. Hanford MacNider, onetime National Commander of the American Legion, spoke for Mr. Butler, praising his "leadership?strong, virile, unafraid" in expelling Senator Brookhart*. Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition...
...University batsmen have accomplished the unusual in totaling as many runs as they do hits. Zarakov, veteran third-sacker, has hit safely seven times and he has also scored seven runs; Captain Todd, with six hits, also shows the same number of tallies to his credit...
Captain Winthrop will in all probability stroke the University crew in the first race of the season, at Princeton on May 8. The veteran pace-setter of two years' stroking experience returned to his old position yesterday, after pulling at six for two months...
Watts, last year's Freshman captain, who has been at stroke practically all season, is now at two, with the veteran Darlington in Winthrop's erstwhile post...