Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect only has the veteran vehicle been changed. In place of the fashionable figures of personified speed which adorn the radiator caps of modern automobiles, the new owner with a sense of the appropriate has chosen for his motif a large silver snail with a minature Rip Van Winkle astride his back...
Some forty years ago, Mr. Justice Holmes, a veteran of the Civil War, spoke, on Commencement Day, of the young Harvard soldiers who "tossed life and hope like a flower before the feet of their country and their cause." Later, their comrade in arms, Major Henry Lee Higginson, dedicated Soldiers Field to "alumni of the University and noble gentlemen who gave freely and eagerly all that they had or hoped for to their country and to their fellow men in the hour of great need." The Harvard soldiers of the World War did this. In a sense they did more...
Observers were inclined to look upon the events of last week as a victory for "Little Tsar Boris" and his father, that arch plotter, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand (TIME, Nov. 16). It was felt to be obvious that M. Liaptcheff, a greying political veteran of three score, will prove more easily manageable than the ruthless arch individualist, Tsankov...
...handedly in Pennsylvania. Henry Cabot Lodge, Roosevelt's close friend, has but recently gone to his grave. Senator Beveridge is no longer Senator, but hopes to be so again. Many others have come and gone from the British embassy at Washington since Bryce was there. Herrick is now the veteran Ambassador to France, where another? Henry White?was then. Frank W. Mondell, who clashed with Roosevelt, is no longer Chairman of the House Committee on Public Lands, but is Director of the War Finance Corporation. Frank Kellogg is no longer one of Mr. Roosevelt's trust-busting lawyers. The young...
...continuous playing is a considerable feat in spite of the fact that Bob lost the contest in his many years of playing the delicate little six-note instrument. Bob has taken part in innumerable parades and has been a member of several orchestras. The most important parade to the veteran player was the Hayes-Wheeler parade which took place after the election of Hayes...