Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course no soldier-general, captain, or sergeant-can see the whole picture. I fought with the 21st Foreign Volunteers, and it was one regiment among thousands. But the prison camp at Dieuze gave me an opportunity to talk with members of scores of other units in the French army; and their stories convinced me that our regiment's experience was much closer to the typical than the unique...
Last week Robinson kept his promise. On his toes like a ballet dancer, he out-stepped and outsmarted foxy Fritzie, tantalized him with lightning-quick punches from unexpected angles, landed one in the fifth round that nearly chalked up his 21st knockout in 26 pro fights. The new Negro wonder can hit equally hard with either hand, can throw a punch faster than Joe Louis...
Richard Dyer-Bennet got into Burke's by being related to a British baronet, Sir John Dyer. He got into lute-playing less simply. Although born in England, he had a U.S. mother, chose to become a U.S. citizen on his 21st birthday, went to the University of California. There he met a voice teacher who remodeled his youthful tenor and told him of a great Swedish minstrel named Sven Scholander. When Dyer-Bennet inherited $500, he hotfooted to Sweden, learned the Swedish lute and some balladeering tricks. He was just in time: within a year, Scholander...
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...Hungarian antifascist, Habe enlisted in France's 21st Foreign Volunteers at the outbreak of the war. In May 1940 his regiment, stationed in Alsace, was ordered west. In Ardennes they held the front entrusted to them for three weeks, then joined the general retreat. A little south of Domrémy, on June 21, they received orders to lay down their arms; France had sued for armistice. Habe was then captured by Germans, was imprisoned with 22,000 other troops at Dieuze, escaped in August into Unoccupied France...