Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neville fought through Guantanamo in 1898; through the Boxer uprising of 1900; through the Philippine insurrection of 1901; through Verdun and Chateau Thierry, commanding the Fifth Regiment; through Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne to the Coblenz bridgehead. On the way into Germany, re-placement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule...
...Frenchli etait une bergere Old FrenchDisons le Chapelet Old Frenchli etat des Filles (with flute) Old FrenchLe Chateau d'Amour Old FrenchLes trois Capitaines Old FrenchMiss Collin
Major General Malone is 56, short, jocular, optimistic, and likely to be as much of a favorite with the 10,000 Philippine soldiers as he was with the discriminating fighting men of the St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne & Chateau Thierry offensives. Because he pursued famed Rebel Aguinaldo (1899-1901), he knows well the swamps and morasses of the Philippines. But, above all, he is the ardently romantic alumnus of the sheer grey towers of West Point. He has written five novels of life at the Military Academy...
ITALY Progress Oil lamps were replaced by electric, last week, in the rural chateau of His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele at St. Anna Di Valdieri in Northern Italy. Admittedly this belated progress was due to the new local Fascist Mayor, Signer Cavalliero Porta, who caused a hydro-electric power plant to be installed within three months after his inauguration. Last week bulbs glowed in the Royal Chateau for the first time when a gold and ivory button was touched by Their Majesties' eldest spinster daughter, Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria di Savoia, 21, often mentioned as a possible...
...four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished...