Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Truth to tell, Washington has become the universal Mecca of human freaks. To that city protagonists of vagaries gravitate by all known routes, some by election, some by appointment, some by 'divine command.' The great majority, however, merely follow noses that itch for the business of others. There they bed and breed...
...down 22 revolutions in his day, and later fought to make of Philadelphia a "dry" metropolis. This respected paladin from Pennsylvania is of course Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. Last week the War Department ordered General Butler to hasten to Shanghai and there take command of the 3,000 U. S. marines who may soon be fighting a modern Boxer Campaign...
...rehabilitating the finances of Nicaragua with dictatorial powers; 4) that a loan of $20,000,000 from exclusively U. S. sources is declared indispensable for rehabilitating Nicaragua; 5) that all military paraphernalia now possessed by Nicaraguans be handed over to a new constabulary, trained by and under the command of U. S. officers for ten years; 6) that all the foregoing considerations show that the arrangement Nicaragua desires, so far from forming part of an imperialistic scheme of U. S. aggrandizement in Central America, is nothing less than a highly humanitarian project sought by Nicaragua...
...extremely sensitive but equally philosophical, this Gubbio. Because he often echoes his chief's command, he has been nicknamed "Shoot." It is an Americanism that sounds ludicrous and a little contemptible to Italians. Another man might be annoyed but not "Shoot" Gubbio. He can contemplate worse than that with equanimity. The futility of mechanical "art," for example. Even the suicide of Giorgio Mirelli, a boy-genius whom he has tutored, does not greatly perturb him. Nor even the strange daemon of the beautiful woman who caused the boy's suicide. Emotionless? Oh, no. But he has taught himself...
...last command gave to his legitimate son his old home in Corsica...