Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Esteemed editor: I was greatly surprised to see myself the hero of a preposterous story, published by the English and American press. I am just a modest school teacher and a World War Veteran. For my record on the battle fields I was distinguished with the order of Michael the Brave...
Almost religious was the mood in which millions of Britons had said good-by to the namesake of splendid Queen Empress Mary. On sailing day, agony columns of London newspapers carried such items as these : "R. m. s. QUEEN MARY - Veteran voyage (first crossed in M. 70's) Godspeed. MAY ALL THE VERY BEST CONDITIONS ATTEND YOU RIGHT THROUGHOUT YOUR CAREER. May all your ways be pleasant ways. And all your paths be peace. And may He be with you every step...
Back in 1930, when the Colgate Outing Club of Colgate University bravely announced its intention to sponsor the first intercollegiate outboard regatta there was a dubious wagging of heads. Veteran outboard drivers throughout the country smiled tolerantly. The college boys, it seemed, were laboring under a hallucination. Wait until they, with oil-besmeared faces, experienced the pounding and physical battering unavoidable in an outboard hydroplane, it was murmured...
...good introduction to the manual of that new great youth movement, the V. F. W. In concise and unlabored prose Mr. Gorin explains the motives of the organization which he founded and the highly logical methods through which their ends may be achieved. The bonus for the Veterans of Future Wars is payable now, he explains. "There is no sense in going to war, as every true veteran of the last few years will tell you, unless there is some provision for living in idleness at the expense of the government for the rest of your life . . . A quick glance...
Peace came as a letdown for Smuts. For a while he was simply an embittered veteran. Then the Liberals came into office in England and gave back self-government to the Boers, only four years after the war ended. Smuts was struck all of a heap. "Has such a miracle of trust and magnanimity ever happened before? Only people like the English could do it. They may make mistakes, but they're a big people." Smuts straightway buried the hatchet, tried to get his brother-Boers to do likewise. When he took office under Botha, who became Prime Minister...