Word: citadel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany. For the Vagabond sees only the frost-blushed ivy on a fine full day in the dawnlight, remembers only the inspiring sight of the citadel lighted blue green by moonlight and snow, and he rejoices in his retreat...
Stone walls do the Kremlin make. Not a building, as most people suppose, the Kremlin is Moscow's citadel, a triangle of high ground bounded by walls and bastions behind which cluster massive government buildings and multi-spired church towers. Last week the 1932 caucus of the Communist Party rose after sitting secretly inside the Kremlin with awful solemnity, supposedly shaping the destinies of Russia...
Meanwhile dapper Don Carlos & family moved out of their handsome house, moved into Casa Moneda, palace of Chilean Presidents. Tanks rumbled into the palace courtyard. Machine guns were set up on the walls. Two regiments of infantry who Don Carlos hoped were loyal took up defensive positions around the citadel of "Sane" Socialism...
...Citadel (Military College of South Carolina...
Senator John Sanford Cohen is a scion of a Jewish family resident in the South since before the Revolution. His father Philip Lawrence Cohen, left The Citadel at Charleston, S. C. to fight for the Confederacy, later married Ellen Wright ot Augusta, Ga. Senator Cohen married Julia Lowry Clarke, daughter of well-to-do Atlanta Christians. He attends Atlanta's North Avenue Presbyterian attends Church...