Word: croix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris Novelist Henri Barbusse, winner of the Prix Goncourt with his pen and the Croix de Guerre with his sword, occupies a position unique and anomalous. He is always bringing some unpleasant fact to light, and his genius is always just sufficient to make the expose nauseatingly unforgettable. With such a man what is to be done? He was among the first to turn up to view the festering underside of Glory in his War novel Le Feu (Under...
...went to prison of his own accord?before orders for his commitment could be prepared?and paid a visit. He had been in prison before when he was a boy of 22, for deserting from the Army. Since then he has won the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre in France. He said to the warden: "I shall do my best to obey every rule of the institution, and I do not expect to be shown any favors over other prisoners. If I am assigned to shoveling coal, I shall not make the slightest complaint. I am willing...
Marshal Foch attended the ceremony of placing the bugle in its case. With him came General Gouraud, now Military Governor of Paris. To them came bugler Corporal Sellier. Upon his chest the one-armed General Gouraud pinned the Croix de Guerre...
...like an ironwood tree. He was given a musket with a long knife on the end of it and told to do thus and so to all who wore a certain uniform. Siki grasped his instructions so capably that, although wounded with shrapnel and bay- onets, he won the Croix de Guerre, two palms, Medaille Militaire, seven citations for conspicuous bravery in action...
Towards Swampscott rushed Lucius J. M. Malnin [sic], Federal Judge of the Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, purchased by the U. S. from Denmark in 1917). Judge Lucius had a tale of "maladministration of the Virgin Isles" by "seven U. S. governors, all navy officers, in seven years," to unfold to President Coolidge. He was told by Secretary Sanders, at Lynn, to hold his peace until the President should return to Washington. Then and there an interview will be accorded...