Word: farragut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
Died. Richard Porter Ashe, 68, lawyer, sportsman, of the family for which Asheville, N. C., was named, nephew of famed Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first husband of famed Aimee Crocker (now Princess Galitzine), owner of famed Racehorse Geraldine (46 sec. half mile, Chicago, 1891), discoverer of Boxer Jim Corbett, oldtime member of California's Bohemian Club; at San Francisco; of apoplexy...
...does this country honor Admiral Farragut...
...cartoons on leading topics in season. He is one of the few living cartoonists who was born and raised in Manhattan. His most famed compositions were made during the War?"The Road to Yesterday" (War dragging Europe back to Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett ("Polly and her Pals") and Editor Bertie Charles Forbes of Forbes' Magazine, with whom he plays checkers. Cartoonist Marcus used to work for the old-time New York Herald, often illustrating the stories of a fast-and-furious red-headed court reporter...
...want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...