Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quentin, Calif., prison officials admitted why one prisoner (alone among 6,000) was allowed to wear a beard. Louis Gianopolis, an old shepherd, when taken to the prison barber to be shaved, screamed: "You're not the boss here, God is boss and you will be punished." The barber cried: "I'm the boss!" with that fell dead of a heart attack...
...many ways I'm glad to be back in America," commented Quentin Roosevelt '41 last night after telling some of the hair raising experiences he had this summer while travelling in far-off China...
...fallen and his cause was lost, he had earned his brassard. When on September 29, 1918 the men of the U. S. II Corps went up against the final defenses of his Siegfried Position at Bellicourt, they had hell's own time. Between Bellicourt and Bony the St. Quentin Canal passed through a tunnel. In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved from the side of the tunnel and could mount to their hidden outside fighting positions through a maze of upward warrens. No sooner...
Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...
...promotion was bestowed upon Professor Morize by the French ambassador at New York, Rene de St. Quentin. Professor Morize served as a captain in the French army from 1914 to 1917. He came to Harvard in 1917 and took charge of military training at the University. He assumed the duties of a professor of French literature as well. Previous to the war, Professor Morize was a professor at the University of Bordeaux...