Word: yeomans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times, Herald Tribune, World-Telegram and Post joined battle for Fusion. The Daily News, Sun and Hearst-papers did yeoman service for Recovery. As the whooping & slamming grew noisier, old Mayor O'Brien felt more and more like a political wallflower. Nobody paid any attention...
...Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing. To be his guest at that famed revel Citizen Hoover asked Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, a bulwark of the G. O. P.'s Old Guard who did yeoman service in the Senate for the White House in 1928-32. Observers guessed that Senator Reed was not going to take a three and a half-day train ride across the continent just for a party. Citizen and Senator would certainly talk over Republican chances in next year...
...Lovelock's run was merely one of the six meet record-breaking performances of the afternoon. Stanwood, a former Bowdoin man, did yeoman service for Oxford with records in both hurdle events, Brown's pole-vault, mentioned before, was a record; E. E. Calvin '35, tenacious Crimson sprinter equaled the meet mark with a 9.8 second century run; Jackson of Yale beat out J. H. Dean '34 in the shotput for a clean record; E. I. David, diminutive sprinter clocked a record 220-yard run for the Light Blue; Mabey of Oxford ran a beautiful two-mile race...
Stroke, J. G. Cassedy '33; 7, A. D. Robertson '33; 6, W. B. Bacon '33; 5, Malcolm Bancroft '33; 4, R. H. Hallowell '33; 3, J. G. Pierce '34; 2, Edward Yeoman '33; bow, W. B. Holcombe '33; cox, B. H. Bissell...
Their faces gleaming from soap & water, their hair scrupulously combed, 67 flushed old men and 67 excited old women waited in the transepts of Westminster Abbey last week. The organ groaned magnificently. Down the aisle stalked a scarlet-&-gold Yeoman of the Guard bearing on his head a solid gold platter piled high with purses of scarlet and white leather. Behind the Yeoman walked King George, Queen Mary and the King's Almoner, the Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson whose other duties include the Deanship of Wells Cathedral...