Word: yeomans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire department arrived on the scene almost immediately, and did yeoman service amid the lusty cheers of a large crowd. Mattresses, lamps, books, clothing, and badly-charred chairs were thrown out of the window. A number of bystanders narrowly escaped serious injuries from the debris which poured out of the burning suite...
...this game also, with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yeoman service for the winners on both occasions...
...guard situation has not improved appreciably since the announcement Monday that Ernie Sargeant had given up football. Dick pfister has looked better, and Tom Lacey has been doing yeoman work as his sub. Pfister's weak spot at present is his blocking on pullout plays when he is slated to clean out defensive backs. This phase of his blocking could be improved...
...until the trip's fifth day, however, that Their Majesties really got taken to Canada's heart, and when they did, it was to experience a spirit they had not met before, a hearty blend of U. S. hail-fellowship and a reassuring, yeoman love of King and Country that was truly British. This man-to-man meeting occurred in Connaught Square at the unveiling of the Canadian national war memorial. There was a reveille, the King placed a wreath at the foot of the shaft, tall redcoats holding standards stepped away, and the memorial was unveiled...
John Husted tried three times to get into the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Best he could manage was a job on a passenger ship as a yeoman, the maritime equivalent of a male stenographer. Then he got a job in a shipyard, a wife, an apartment in Manhattan. When 29 ships and 10,000 officers & men of the U. S. Navy hove in for the World's Fair last fortnight, ex-Yeoman Husted took out his faded blue uniform, adorned it with new buttons, new stripes. By a kind of wishful magic familiar to more men than would ever...