Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profit is at stake with the British cause. Ever since the Italians took Ethiopia, Britons have nursed the Negus, Haile Selassie, with convincing tenderness. Not long ago, when the British began to resurge in Africa, he flew from Britain toward his native land to start beating his war drum (his drum, he says, has a different tone from that of all other Ethiop chiefs; the blacks know it well). At the same time the British sent "military missions" among their would-be allies, to persuade them to rise up against the Italians. But there is no persuasion like apparent success...
...crusading got them in Preachers Present Arms and The Road to War. No bellicose drum-beating marks their attitude now, but many a minister has reached a slow, sober decision that a just war may be less evil than an unjust peace...
...friends; 2) charges against Stone and his helpers that they had defamed the Lundquist faction. Principals in the fight were meanwhile suspended. Last month, 2,000 members assembled to hear the first group of the trial board's reports and pass judgment. The meeting opened with music and drum majorettes cavorting on the stage, fell into a hush when the trial board began to read a report on Vice President Keppler...
Better Lookers. As Marie, an orphan who is adopted as a mascot by the regiment, Soprano Pons beats the drum, falls in love with a peasant who turns soldier so that he may marry her. A marquise claims Marie as her niece, carries her off to a chateau to make a lady of her-but not for long. The peasant, now an officer, turns up to claim Marie, with drum rolls and general rejoicing...
This week, at posts along the Atlantic seaboard from South Carolina to the Canadian border, soldiers of Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum's First Army fell in for special Armistice Day formations. To hardened Regulars, newly mobilized National Guardsmen, Organized Reserves, one-year volunteers-all the components of the new U. S. Army except conscripts-officers intoned an order-of-the-day. To many a top sergeant, Hugh Drum's dicta on how to train the new army sounded new & strange. Expecting that it would, Hugh Drum had pointedly commanded his subordinates to post his order where their...