Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue also opens its season today in the Bowl against the University of Maine. Able Booth only lacks one man of having an all-veteran team. Last season the Orono stalwarts were crushed by the Elis, chiefly because Coach Brice threw nearly his whole strength into the opening period and was swamped towards the end of the game. All Harvard rooters will watch with interest the debut of practically the same Blue team which the Crimson took into camp last year to the tune of 13 to 0, and which they hope will be polished off this season...
...City of New York", veteran sailing ship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, has won the right to be called a gallant ship, not alone from her unfaltering battles with the Antarctic gales and towering ice, carrying men and supplies of the Expedition; she has a history as a ship alone...
...Washington was sweltering. Tempers were short. Discarding forensic veneer, speaking "as one soldier to another." the veteran of Château-Thierry and Soissons said: "What I have to say is that there is a little uneasiness in this country about the American Legion. I can't imagine anything more ridiculous than for you to go down to Detroit with a program of relief for the whole country and at the same time hold out a tin cup. If you do that you will be laughed at. And I say that as a man in favor of the Bonus legislation...
...pursuit of a band of Arab rebels. Late at night they made contact near the little village of Slonta. There was a running fight. Rifles flashed yellow in the dark. Twelve tribesmen were killed. A short charge captured most of the rest, including their leader, a hardbitten, wiry old veteran of 75, wearing the silken turban cords of a sheik...
...Squaw Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cecil Blount De Mille is the most veteran of Hollywood directors and The Squaw Man is his favorite picture. He made it first in 1913. eight years after William Faversham and William S. Hart played it on the stage, with Dustin Farnum in the hero's role. Four years later De Mille coaxed Elliot Dexter and Jack Holt through its sequences of sacrifice and agony. His feeling for his reiterative classic has now come to resemble that of an after-dinner orator for his favorite anecdote. Adroit, devoted and familiar, he squeezes its antique...