Word: veteranly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina-only Civil War veteran in House, 87 years old. Was a major in Lee's army, wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Snow-white hair and beard, stooped shoulders, almost blind, a fine face. The House simply adores him. He rarely speaks. He is a small man in stature. A secretary conducts...
Swift and masterful was the style in which veteran Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré consolidated the position of his new Cabinet, last week, smacked down his program of action before Parliament, and swept an enemy or two from the political chess board...
...birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White Armies" during the Bolshevist Revolution. Son-of-Ivan. The Kulak murders of last week did not foreshadow a revolt of the peasantry as a whole, in the expert opinion of veteran New York Times Correspondent Walter Duranty; but unquestionably they troubled the minds and frayed the nerves of the statesmen who rule Russia from Moscow's thick-walled and tall-towered Kremlin. Perhaps, of these resolute rulers, the most anxious and sick at heart was Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin...
...Manila, General Malone will find the Governor General in the person of Henry Lewis Stimson, who was Secretary of War under President Taft,* and will salute the Headquarters Commander in the person of Major General Douglas MacArthur, twice wounded, twelve times decorated veteran of Vera Cruz and France...
...twice-divorced mother and once-divorced father of her interesting condition, Father cries "Harlot!", Mother cries "Why didn't you tell me?" Only the dowager Mrs. Poole will accept erring granddaughter, riveting grandson-to-be, but Mrs. Poole's acceptance, one presumes, is sufficient for Manhattan. The veteran Henrietta Crosman does the fussbudgetty dowager and is featured in the play, but another saved the night. She is Rose Hobart...