Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasurer since 1921, Col. White was going to be president of the newly formed Southern Mortgage Guaranty Corp. of Chattanooga, Tenn. People in Washington knew that Chattanooga was gaining a gallant citizen. Col. White was North Dakota's Governor in 1901-1905. He commanded an infantry regiment...
...Colonel of a regiment stationed at Tourelles had written to the War Ministry that he found it impossible, in that region, to obtain an acceptable male cook. Was there, the Colonel sought to know, any permissible alternative? He enclosed without comment the photograph and the credentials of a woman, Mme. Jacquet...
...army is kept closely in touch with the workers through a system of 'patron age'; a factory will 'adopt' a regiment; a regiment, on the other hand, will 'adopt' a village. . . . The Red Army, more than any other in the world, is aiming toward the goal of a volunteer militia, in which the entire nation will participate. ... In Russian factories the workers are organized in[military training] units . . . and already they are partially outfitted with the most modern 6.5 millimeter repeaters. . . . Men in a textile factory can be turned in three minutes into...
Finders Keepers. She was the godmother of the regiment, but the daughter of the regiment's Colonel. He was only a buck private. She flirted with the officers. He peeled potatoes for them. The pair loved. To reach him for a hurried marriage ceremony before the outfit sailed for France, she put her slim young legs into a soldier's uniform, but forgot the belt. When the pants slipped, the audience squealed. Doughboys may have shooting pains when they see the army scenes, but picture patrons will deem eye-worthy this implausible, happy comedy with Laura La Plante...
Saturday night in the 102nd Regiment Armory in New York City the University track team will encounter the keenest track and field opposition the East can produce when it participates in the seventh annual indoor Intercollegiate championship meet of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America. The present I. C. 4A meet, a stellar feature of the winter season, had its official origin in 1922. when the first meet was held, and at a meeting of the I. G. 4A authorities, it was decided to make the event an annual affair. The initial classic was held in New York City...