Word: barrette
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...looking for the "Question of Formosa," the visitor has the help of many more Americans than were here last July, when the U.S. posture on this island was at its tragic low. Then the senior U.S. officials in residence were a charge d'affaires and Colonel David Barrett, a famous "old China hand" who headed a staff of six military attaches including himself. Since then an American Minister, Karl Rankin, has taken over, a ruddy and genial man of stature and intelligence. In the seven weeks since he arrived, he has galvanized the listless diplomatic staff and earned...
...Little Diomede and the Russian island called Big Diomede lies 2% miles of Bering Strait and the International Dateline. From big, weather-worn Father Bernard R. Hubbard, the 61-year-old "Glacier Priest" whose Alaskan explorations are known around the world, came a postcard last week to Alaska Authoress Barrett (Spawn of the North) Willoughby. From his mission on Little Diomede (pop. 130), Father Hubbard wrote...
Allen, Samuel Marston '51, Barrett, Theodore Boutelle '51, Benson, Frank Weston, 2d '49, Chadwick, William John '51 (Captain), Flagg, Washington Allston, Jr. '52, House, Theodore Grant '52, Marston, Byrne Richard '51, Monslage, Robert Pearce '51, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr. '52, Dexter, Nathaniel Thayer '50 (Manager...
Boston Red Sox scouts Johnny Murphy and Bill Barrett were at the game to watch Ira Godin, who started for the Crimson Godin was equal to the occasion. He gave up no runs and but three hits--two of them of the scratch variety--in the four innings he pitched. He also struck out five...
...said one visitor, which were "like the pendent ears of a water spaniel, and poor little hands, so thin that when she welcomed you she gave you something like the foot of a young bird." Browning himself, with his big, bumped nose, was scarcely Apollo reincarnate. And Old Man Barrett, though rather like an ogre, was hardly as black as hell's chimney after all; Elizabeth called him "Sweet Puppy...