Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark times for Foch. His son and son-in-law had been killed. He himself fell out of favor, was retired by Joffre from command of the Northern Group of Armies. Not until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born in 1895, Capt. Basil Henry Liddell Hart, entered the British Army in 1914 as a Cambridge University Candidate; at 20 he commanded...
...Monday the American people will burn their anevillees to is a great name. George Washington had been atripped of all that was human within him; he is bereft of all those principles which made him the Father of his Country. Americans have looked at their fair land and found it good and they have, with native ingenuity, endowed Washington with all those attributes which they descry in the government and life of the United States. He has become a republican, a man of the people, a temple to house the homely precepts of American faith. The man has been lost...
...Jean Reginensi, Robert Lenier, Joseph Touge, were unhurt but thirsty. Rescue planes began hunting, but the stranded flyers could not state their location. For three days the crew continued to flash piteous accounts of their increasing thirst. In return they received messages of love from their families, advice to burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third day the radio failed, its last message expressing thanks for the efficient communications but adding: "We had rather have a barrel of beer." On the sixth day the men were found alive, about 200 mi. south...
...hold a meeting last week in Bilbao. Socialists, Communists, Republicans attempted to break down the doors, and the fun began. Civil Guards were called out, four people were killed, three wounded. Mobs wrecked a Catholic newspaper, hurled gasoline on the doors of a Jesuit monastery and attempted to burn it down. Inside the monastery somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms. Socialists held a public funeral...
Then the posse turns its attention to the others, deciding to burn the house down. "Don't shoot 'em, boys," somebody warns. "We want to roast 'em!" "De Lawd won't let 'em do it," says big Black...