Word: wigs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bayonet fencing for each individual member of the Training Corps will continue under Captain Leslaby and an hour and a half a day will be assigned to this drill. Signalling by the wig-wag code as well as by the semaphore system will be learned, and some instruction in the principles of first aid will be given...
Pennsylvania, aside from the Regiment, is taking active part in several other divisions of military service. A signal corps divided into three sections, wireless, wig-wagging and semaphore code word, has been formed; 60 students are enrolled for special training in aviation; a base hospital unit has been formed by Dr. Edward Martin; 41 gymnasium leaders have volunteered for special training and will become instructors for the conditioning of the raw recruits; about 150 men have joined the Naval Reserve; a machine gun corps is being trained, and enlistments have begun for farm and industrial service. The profits...
...instruct in the different departments of naval science. The class in engineering is now studying marine engines, the one in gunnery is learning gun mechanism, the one in fire-control, how to give orders for loading and firing, and the one in signaling is working with the semaphore and wig...
Many men have tried to establish communication with Mars. From the most star-gazing professor of stellar history radiographing scientific inquiries, to the youngest Boy Scout wig-wagging questions about the baseball score, men of various degrees of wisdom have talked with the unheeding planet. Mars has been unresponsive. Perhaps that is because Mars is a gentleman and refuses to speak without a proper introduction to a chance acquaintance, especially such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language...
...advantages have been duly paraded, but here is a stronger argument than any yet brought before the public: Think of the loss to American literature if that romantic tropical colony passed out of our control! Where else could a noble American officer parade through a jungle in a yellow wig and a ballet skirt for the love of a heroine named Inez, and brave a villain named Morang, and go through savage ceremonies with bolos and nipa and tuba and other atmospheric perils, finally to be buried to the neck with syrup on his face and a swarm...