Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naval officer, there is no denying that Horthy was able; he rose rapidly, was transferred to the General Staff, became a naval aide-de-camp to Kaiser and Konig Franz Josef. In the early part of the War, he proved himself as brave and loyal an officer as ever the Emperor had and, when the Germans crushed a mutiny at Cattaro, he proved himself astute enough to take the credit...
...might have said that censorship is "vicious", or "subversive of truth". It would even have been better to say that George Washington picks the all-American football squad, and that Walter Camp was the first President of the United States: that Cleopatra was a saint, and that Joan of Arc a naughty, naughty girl; but never that censorship is un-American. Anything but that...
...brought fatherhood into disrepute, as an agency too casual to be revered and too dubious to be trusted. That suggestion is implicit in the affairs of the Jewish family Rakowitz. Babette, afterwards the first Mrs. Rakowitz, used to march each evening, attended by two white trouser-legs, to the camp of the Emperor Napoleon at Pressburg. She bred and ruled many Rakowitzes, passed her domineering spirit down through seven generations of Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book is an extraordinary graph of the involved ganglia, the subtle criss-crossing veins, the interwoven tissues...
...bill to convert the military reservation at Camp Benning, Ga., into a national forest. (Went to the House...
...good "bag" was expected, as the camp was surrounded by lions and many other carnivora. The Duke had previously shot a zebra and a pallah (antelope). The Duchess "bagged" a great collection of small game...