Word: command
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Colonel Darling is a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1885, and, besides his colonelcy, holds the position of United States Marshal in Massachusetts. In the Spanish war, he was in command of one of the battalions of the Sixth Massachusetts, which defeated and captured the entire "Alfonso XIII" regiment of Spain. This battalion was the only body of Massachusetts troops which saw active service...
...poetry in the number, is on the whole, better than the prose. "Sunset," is exceedingly poor; but "Nocturne," has genuine lyrical beauty, and "Demeter," by A. D. Ficke, is musical and delicately fanciful, though it lacks the strong and sure command of suggestive striking similes, which are the marks of poetic imagination as distinguished from that poetic fancy which pleases, but does not stir, and lightly fascinates but does not compellingly more...
...struggle, to strive, to obey, to command...
...shall welcome at duty's command...
...struggle, to strive, to obey, to command...