Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another veteran of the Ethiopian campaign but on the Italian side was the third casualty, hulking, grey-haired Edward J. Neil, 37, whose boast it was that neither he nor his father had ever worked for anyone but the Associated Press. Long-time a Manhattan sports writer, he won a medal and the title Commendatore from Marshal Badoglio in Ethiopia, went on night raids with Arab sharpshooters in Palestine, reported King George's Coronation, and scooped the world on the Rightist capture of Bilbao by filing his story under fire...
...under no circumstances, by formal prearrangement. The Post occasionally subsidizes a favorite author by buying a poor story and never printing it, but unlike Collier's and Liberty it maintains no stable. However, when the editors and a veteran writer talk over and agree on a piece, it is rare that it is not accepted...
Following an oration by funereal John Martin, dance critic of the New York Times, veteran Ruth St. Denis, artistic progenitor of most modern American expressionists, evoked past history as the evening's curtain raiser. The Japanese maiden of White Jade, more familiar to dance audiences of the medieval 1920s, proved the program's high point in pleasantness...
...Ledyard's congregation rebelled. Resigning as of last week, the young-looking minister made ready to become organization director of the Quarry Workers' International Union, with headquarters at Barre, Vt. For him this was not a new field. Universalist Ledyard, Michigan-born and a Spanish-American War veteran, held a pastorate in Northfield, Vt. for five years, did some field work among quarry workers before becoming an Americanization teacher for Mexicans, a homesteader in Oregon and, in 1924, returning to the historical church in Kansas where he shocked people by sermonizing in a golf club...
...model Author Rodocanachi disclaims any single prototype, says he drew on several adventurous Greeks of his acquaintance. His own career offered a good starting point. Egyptian-born, English-educated, Constantine Rodocanachi is a veteran of the Greco-Turkish, the Balkan and World Wars, was a leader of the Venizelos revolution. He has made and lost several fortunes, served in the diplomatic corps. Now 58 years old, he has retired to devote his full time to writing. Forever Ulysses is his first novel...