Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strickland Gillilan of Washington, D. C. is a veteran newspaperman, onetime president of American Press Humorists, best known as author of the line: "Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...
Langy Burwell, a Junior who only started big-time running last winter, breezed home only nine seconds behind Haley in second place. Penn Tuttle and Gene Clark, Jaakko's veteran long distance pair, finished in third and fourth places, trailed by diminutive Dick Wing...
Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...
...Manhattan, World War Veteran Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville, accepted the Roll Call chairmanship...
...House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next thing to treason, the white-haired veteran protested bitterly that he was the "last man to propose a surrender." Only Mr. Lloyd George knew precisely why he made such a speech at such a time, but one could guess that the old man, having once conducted Britain through a war himself, would naturally be inclined to super...