Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establish his reputation, too long neglected as a devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...
...Blut und Schlamm." His joy at his first taste of warfare was quickly conveyed to his family by letter: "I gratified my longings on the battlefield−smelt powder, heard whistling around me projectiles of all kinds−shells, shrapnel, canister, rifle-bullets; I was slightly wounded, thus becoming an interesting person; and I captured five cannon...
...grocery clerk in Providence, married his employer's daughter and made a career for himself by doggedness and a keen mind. When he first went to Washington he made a close friend of General Sheridan and from him learned Grant's way of getting results on the battlefield, and Mr. Aldrich made politics his battlefield. He was a confidant of McKinley and close to Roosevelt. He made his plans with care and he executed them with pressure. He did not care for the opinions of others and almost never read newspapers but he was a first-rate appreciator...
...Charles XII, boy king of Sweden, beats Peter on the battlefield. In the retreat, a Russian general takes a girl, Katharina, whom later he gives to Peter. Peter likes her. He sends the Tsarina to a nunnery...
...arena resplendent in the shining armour of his art. He is to fight the great battle with that malignant it otherwise known as human destiny. He is to become a mummer of merely carrying first aid to the wretched and miserable left wounded and bleeding on life's battlefield by the inexorableuess of fate. He is to make kings out of beggars and make a grovelling worm look up at the stars and say proudly: "You are mine...