Word: yeomanly
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...soldier in a café, and hears a strange yarn about a signalling detachment of 40 women who managed to get up to the front. Their commander, Lieutenant Alberta Snyder, had drilled them into a fine body of women. During the drive against the Hindenburg Line they did yeoman service at the field telephones; an infuriated but harassed commanding officer allowed them to stay. Some of them were killed; their lieutenant was captured by the Germans...
...Only one other Labor peer was created last week, Major Dudley Leigh Aman, by profession a wireless expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House...
...Nyhoff '31 and H. W. Sibley '31 were outstanding in the Junior play, and Frank Watt '32 and T. E. Covel '32 did yeoman work for the Sophomores...
...Pilgrims who trooped into the dining room of the Hotel Victoria found Lord Desborough at the head of the speakers' table surrounded by the greatest diplomatic personages in London. At Yeoman Desborough's right in the seat of honor was Charles Gates Dawes, the newly-arrived U. S. Ambassador. At his left was Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. Next to Mr. Dawes was plantagenet-beaked Sir Austen Chamberlain, the outgone Foreign Secretary, and beyond him Sir Austen's good friend, French Ambassador Monsieur de Fleurian. Also at the speakers' table were the Ambassadors of Germany, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, and the Italian...
...your magazine to my Uruguayan friends as the outstanding information publication of my country. Consequently, after boasting proudly of TIME'S accuracy in reporting even minor events of interest, I was quite astonished to read in my copy of Dec. 3, just received, on page 7 under "Chief Yeoman," that Mr. Hoover's complete itinerary included Montevideo (URAGUAY...