Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-haired Commissioner O'Ryan's office. An oldtime militiaman, John Francis O'Ryan joined New York's smart 7th Regiment in 1897, was abruptly promoted from major to major general commanding all State troops in 1912. In 1916 he led the New York national guardsmen to the Mexican border, two years later went to France at the head of the 27th Division. He served with distinction, was the only militiaman to retain his command of a division throughout the War. His men selected for their divisional insignia a starry arm-patch supposed to represent the constellation Orion. Back home...
...such statements border on pure New Orleans absinthe romance, they are piquant evidence of the sturdy enterprise of Jung & Wulff who during the U. S. period of Prohibition sold 4,000 cases yearly of "non-alcoholic absinthe." In what New Orleans calls "the legal confusion which followed Repeal," Jung & Wulff sold 1,500 cases of absinthe until ordered to desist last...
Most Germans, even if they paid the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa, were held up on the Austro-German border on technicalities. But "My Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When...
There were three principal ways of getting messages over the Dutch border: 1) On dark nights "passeurs" would go through the wire wearing rubber gloves and rubber socks, dodging the sentries. 2 ) Bargemen from Rotterdam to Antwerp would find means of concealing dispatches. 3) Belgian peasants whose farms touched the frontier were sometimes induced to pick up and transmit papers secretly tossed over the wire at night...
...Fritz of the Landsturm was a sentry on the border. A kind old man, he was fond of children, who were fond of him. What worried him was that Marie, aged 14, and her friends played too close to the live wire. Marie used to share delicacies with the old man, welcome relief from a diet of black bread and potatoes. Suddenly Old Fritz, bewildered, was transferred and Marie was arrested and condemned to death. Later her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and after the war this "stocky, wide-eyed Jeanne d'Arc" was awarded a British decoration...