Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where most people make their mistake is in predicting nothing but losses for the remaining games of the season. Harvard was unimpressive, but so were all its Ivy League rivals. It hardly seems feasible to discount so heavily Dick Harlow's Sophomore array, when the more or less veteran elevens of future opponents fared equally poorly Saturday...
Saint Exupery is 39, conscription class 21, was 13 years old in 1914 when war started, 17 when it ended, donned a uniform for the first time in 1921 when he served for two years in the French air force in Strasbourg. As you would say: "no war veteran...
...years of noisy, gaudy convening, the American Legion had its annual party last week with most of the world at war. Despite their routine horseplay which for four days turned Chicago upside down, the Legionnaires never quite achieved the hysteria of former conventions. The high was a veteran in a bonnet flourishing a baby's bottle...
Wrens. Another able War I veteran runs the Women's Royal Naval Service ("Wrens"), a unit of 2,000 who work at naval bases as cooks, bookkeepers, cipherers, but none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid...
...veteran but an outstanding post-War civic leader (as member of the Overseas Settlement Board, Imperial Relations Trust, Broadcasting Commission), Lady Reading was last year picked by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to amalgamate 70 women's groups into one workable body, now numbering half-a-million members. The evacuation force was just one of the services to be whipped together (it now carries on the job of clothing, feeding, schooling the evacuees for the duration of the war). She had 46,000 women trained for ambulance driving (requirements: change wheels, spark plugs, back 100 yds. in total darkness...