Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hits, there the feathers fly." The potentialities of the movement as an effective satire have been realized. A joke gets known more widely and more rapidly than a philosophy thesis, and as such, the movement has swept the nation's campuses. But it is at this point that the Veterans of Future Wars need a solid foundation under them. That foundation must be utter seriousness, thinly veiled by the humor of the idea, and not vice versa. As an example, a Future War Veteran kept up his front against the ridicule of a Congressman in Washington and asked...
Opening its home season today against Tufts, the Varsity Lacrosse team will face stiff competition. Tufts has an almost completely veteran outfit and one that looks, on paper at least, much improved over last year. It defeated M. I. T. last Wednesday...
Representative Dunn described how Everett Parker, a fellow War veteran, came to his office last January to ask for food for his family, how he had gone to the Parker home at 311 D St., only four blocks from the Capitol. There Representative Dunn found "this little woman and her babies sleeping in two smutty three-quarter beds in one little room where there were no sanitary facilities; no running water, all huddled there together." Of Father Parker, who has an impediment in his speech and a hernia which prevents him from doing any heavy work, Representative Dunn declared: "This...
Mississippi's husky Aubert C. Dunn, 39-year-old War veteran who in 1934 defeated Rev. W. Lycurgus Spinks for his House seat, uprose to boom in a bullfrog voice: "I have not been boisterous since I became a freshman in this Congress. ... I have been the recipient of so many kind and courteous favors from my senior colleagues, until it makes me feel fainty. ... I want you to go with me to a place down at 311 D Street, NW, in the city of Washington...
Outstanding performance is Bennie Bartlett's as the bad boy who at a crucial moment squirts fire extinguisher fluid out of his pistol into the gangster's eyes. Aged 9, Bartlett, in the Hollywood tradition, supports a mother, an ailing War-veteran father, three small sisters on his salary as a stock contract player...