Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trumpets brayed and the white-ruffled Alguaciles rode out to catch the keys to the arena in their plumed hats last month, it was great-jawed, ugly BELMONTE himself who led the parade with his embroidered cape twisted across his back and over his arm. For a long-retired veteran's comeback it had not been an unsuccessful season. All of his old courage, most of his old skill, were still on display. Because he always worked closer to the horns than other bullfighters, he had been tossed many times in a few weeks, but never seriously hurt...
Died. William Thomas Gardner, 90, Civil War veteran who, lacking newsprint, printed a wallpaper account of the fall of Vicksburg (now a collector's item); after a long illness; in Freeport...
...impress the entrenched interests now attacking the schools." Hopefully they decided to ask the next Congress for half a billion dollars, with no strings of Federal control attached. In this resolution they were going to call attention to $2,000,000,000 Federal appropriations for Army & Navy, but War Veteran Virgil Sturgill of Ashland, Ky. objected and the comparison was struck...
...Governor of Hudson's Bay Co. is tall dour Major Patrick Ashley Cooper, London financier who won his spurs in South American utilities. Educated at Cambridge, a veteran of the Royal Field Artillery, he is a director of the Bank of England. Bold, progressive, energetic, he was last week on his way to visit Hudson's Bay Company's arctic posts, the first Governor ever to do so in the company's history...
Harvard's scoring started in the opening frame when John Ware, veteran center feilder, came home on a wild pitch by Yale's pitcher-captain George Parker. Ware had reached first on the start of a series of four passes given by Parker in the initial inning...