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...young-ones ransacked the toys of their youth to bring forth only a decrepit wool-stuffed policeman-doll. Mrs. Angell smoothed its uniform somewhat but couldn't do anything about the runs in the flat-foot's stockings. Nevertheless she sallied forth in full evening dress with the sergeant in her arms. The butler was visibly astonished but imagined that there was to be a gay old time in the town that night...
...jurisdiction of the Senate and into the jurisdiction of some court. He now asked for four days in which to enter another habeas corpus plea. Prisoner Brittin's counsel made a similar request. Both were granted and both prisoners, accompanied by the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney, clumped off to a second-floor room of the Willard...
Next morning at the Willard Mr. Brittin, longtime vice president of Northwest Airways, abruptly asked Sergeant Jurney to take him to jail. "I am broke," said he. "My company has fired me. I have decided not to fight further." His attorney amplified: "Col. Brittin feels the necessary effects of the disapproval, and condemnation expressed in the decision of the Senate so completely destroys him and his future that it is idle to try and save anything from the wreck...
...ambush, kill the troop's captain. The rest reach an oasis. The first night, Arabs shoot a sentry, steal the horses. The next morning a cockney soldier climbs a palm tree to get a look at the enemy. He topples down with a bullet in his heart. The sergeant (Victor McLaglen) draws lots, sends two of his men to scout for help. They come back dead, strapped to the backs of horses. A rescue plane lands on the sand; the pilot is shot as he starts toward the trees. By this time Arab snipers, concealed by the dunes, have...
Under the auspices of the Naval Science Department, students enrolled in that unit together with members of the Harvard Rifle Club, will be offered expert coaching by Sergeant William A. Easterling of the Marine Corps, member of the National rifle team and winner of the Pershing Trophy, President's Match, and Leech Cup. Easterling will be in Memorial Hall daily, starting next Tuesday, from 10 to 12 o'clock and from 2 to 5 o'clock. Rifle Club members in good standing can shoot at these times...