Word: commendatione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 20 minutes later he was seen standing alone on the high, bitterly contested escarpment. He signaled that he would lower the wounded to safety. The company commander ordered him to come down, but he paid no attention until he had removed the last of 75 wounded men. Despite disobeying...
His reaction to World War I was typical of the average U.S. reaction of that day. Editorially, he plunged into it with all his fervor, calling it "the greatest revival the world has ever known since Christ came upon the earth." He won an Editor & Publisher award for a stirring...
His career was shaped by: 1) two wars; 2) life inside the narrow horizons of a small farm; and 3) an early political career in a machine that knew little and cared less for broad-scale statesmanship. Son of a Missouri farmer, he went no farther than high school before...
Surgeons who later heard the rifleman's story almost invariably remarked, "Well, I'll be damned." One of them wrote a commendation for Private Kinman's presence of mind, resourcefulness and skill.
Last night the Cambridge Summer Theatre under the guiding hand of Robert Perry attempted to give Cambridge a hint of the nostalgia of by-gone musical comedy days by presenting Jerome Kern's one-time hit, "Oh Boy!" Such an effort deserves only commendation; however, one is unable to give...