Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virginian, West Pointer, cavalry officer. Major-general of the Confederate army at thirty, and killed in battle before the fall "in the fourth year of the Republic," Jeb Stuart was, before any of these things, essentially a human, forceful personality. Fastidious in dress, possessing an excellent voice and sense of humor, and leaving poker and whiskey alone, Stuart was intoxicated with the beauty of Virginia, women and horses. Robert E. Lee said of him, "General Stuart was my ideal of a soldier." Which, according to the tenor of the book, was the one compliment Stuart would have desired...
Stories on the game by the Pointer, of West Point, and the CRIMSON...
...Metropolitan Grass Court Championship in Brooklyn, Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later coached by Mercer Beasley who also developed...
...Sioux, who three years ago inducted Chief White Eagle Coolidge into that tribe, and who this spring died a city death of pneumonia (TIME, April 21), Princess Spotted Elk of the Penobscots, and young Chief Long Lance of the Blackfoot tribe, author, boxer, wrestler and onetime West Pointer, to play the leads. Burden and Chanler spent ten months on wilderness location to obtain a realism so striking that Paramount, which released The Silent Enemy last week, complained: "People will never believe it." Accordingly, a six-hour epic has been cut to 90 minutes. But it is still epic...
...Eagle Ferris, $5,000 pointer: The open all-age stake at the spring trials of the Kentucky Pointer & Setter Club at Camp Knox, beating Champion Frank Brown's Sam. setter...