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Probably his greatest victory was that of July 18, 1918, in which he commanded a force more than half of which was composed of U.S. troops. German guns pounded the lines in front of Villers-Cotteré Forest. A strong first line was pushing a German advantage for all it was worth. Of a sudden, a boom, boom, boom crashed in martial notes through the air, followed by the appalling noise of drum fire: boom, boom, drum, drum, drum, boom, boom, etc. Long lines of tanks ambled across the broken lines spittin fire to the accompaniment of the chugging engines...
...said that he had recently invested a sum of money?modest, to be sure, a trifle of $250?in the stock of the De Forest Phonofilm Corporation of Manhattan. Regretting his investment, he had gone to the office of the Corporation, asked for a refund, had been advised that if he parted from his stock he would be sorry all his life. He then offered, he declared, to sell his holding for $150, was told, this time more brusquely, that he had bought the stock would have to keep it. An individual named Elliott was president of the sales corporation...
Enchantment transports him into a dark valley. The moon lifts the white of an eye over a cloud, but lightless in the glade he wanders; the forest talks to him in many voices; night presses her hands over his eyes. Ever lie hear.; in his heart the voice of the once happy squirrel, reproaching him for the hurt he did her furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with...
...also made of the winners of the contests for the Baccalaureate Hymn and for the designs of the Yard. Stadium, and Memorial Hall tickets. The Hymn selected was written by Hugh Whitney '25, of Paris, France, and the winning ticket designs were submitted by Lefferts Malcolm Millard '26, of Forest Hills...
Code of the West. Zane Grey is the prominent name they pinned to this production. To tell his story, they hired Owen Moore, Constance Bennett and a forest fire. Twirling this combination on a fairly familiar Western axis, they revealed an hour or so of highly satisfactory amusement. Miss Bennett plays the Broadway cabaret girl transplanted abruptly to the Western hills. Her lipstick and her silks are misunderstood by the conventional natives. But they go to her cowboy's head and he marries her by force. Their stormy honeymoon is completely surrounded by a forest fire through which they...