Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cadets, under the command of Captain G. N. Barker and Battalion commander Herbort M. Irwin '37, marched before reviewers in Memorial Hall, and executed commands given by student officers...
...partners, Hennedyck, a manufacturer who shut down his mill rather than let the Germans get his textiles, were sent to a German prison. Alain Laubigier refused to register with the authorities, led the life of a hunted criminal till he ended up in a labor battalion. Judith Lacombe fell in love with the German soldier who raped her, turned sullen prostitute when he went away...
...That spectacular American," as laudatory Paris papers have dubbed William Christian Bullitt, drove in his limousine into the courtyard of the Elysee Palace last week, took the salute of a battalion of the French Garde Républicaine, and presented to cordial President Albert Lebrun his credentials as U. S. Ambassador. For twelve years popular and Bohemian "Bill" Bullitt has maintained a studio in Paris, and he put his heart into telling M. Lebrun: "I come to France not as a stranger but as one who for many years has known the magnificent achieve ments of French civilization...
Charles W. Kessler '37, major, heads Harvard's field artillery battalion, as commander, seconded by F. Gorham Brigham '37, Captain and adjutant, and William T. Glendinning '38, sergeant-major...
...Kermesse Héroïque (Tobis). When a Spanish messenger gallops into the Flemish town of Boom one morning in 1616 to announce that the Duke of Olivares and his battalion plan to spend the night there, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen are scared out of their wits. Foreseeing a repetition of the bloody invasion of Antwerp, the Mayor suggests a ruse: he will pretend to be dead and the Aldermen, mourning at his bier, will be spared the necessity of resisting the intruders. When the Spaniards arrive, the men of Boom-except a young painter named...