Word: commandeering
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When Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant, professor of Military Science and Tactics, left the University in the beginning of January to take command of one of the Navy's newest and best equipped ships, the U. S. S. Colorado, Captain Watson received orders from the Navy department to come to Harvard. Because of new orders from the Department Office in Washington, to the effect that he was to remain in charge of the Pacific fleet in the vicinity of Hawaii until the Admiral had ordered the manoeuvers to stop, his period of instruction at Harvard had to be delayed...
...hasty showdown, in which Jef would either forgive his Marceline or, pardonably, shoot her. Director Jean Choux, who wrote the story, avoided such cliches. As the candid husband. Rene Lefebvre has built up a brilliant characterization in comic pathos. He has cheerfully ground coffee at his wife's command, comforted her. unwittingly, when one of her lovers departed for Brazil. He is so helpless, so friendly that Clo-Clo tries to spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully has incident been used to characterize his charm, that...
...Minnesota Democrats were loud and disorderly when they convened at St. Paul. Roosevelt partisans were in 4-to-1 command over Smith supporters. Political opponents tussled around a microphone. The presiding officer wrecked a table gaveling for order. The stuffy air resounded with hisses and catcalls. When the Minnesota delegation had been instructed to cast its 24 votes for Governor Roosevelt, the disgruntled Smith minority bolted, held a rump session of its own, voted to send a Smith delegation to Chicago anyway. Total Roosevelt strength for the week...
Coincidentally Navy orders went to Commander Alger H. Dresel, lately commanding officer of the U. S. S. Los Angeles, to take command of the U. S. S. Akron, relieving Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl. There was no ignominy for famed Commander Rosendahl in the transfer. Like all other Navy airship officers he must take his tour of sea duty (he will be aboard the battle flagship West Virginia) to qualify for promotion...
...Peter, who keeps a goat's eye on her himself, persuades Fergus that she has been the cause of their father's death, that she must be killed. On the day of the murder Peter feigns sick. Fergus loves Mary, but, under his brother's patriarchal command, he takes her out and drowns her. Convicted of murder, he is sentenced to penal servitude for life...