Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...completely discounting the political element, Italy now occupies a better position than before the attack, surer in defence, and offering more favorable opportunities in some future offensive to make full use of her superiority in men. Henceforth the Allies will make sure that Italy is supplied with the requisite iron and coal, materials without which she cannot fight, for the immeasurable consequences of complete German success in Lombardy or even the coast provinces have been only too clearly realized...
...permitted to lead to commissions directly, but which again sent a long list of unusually well prepared men to the second Plattsburgs. In the closing weeks of the summer, the Harvard organization, its ideals, its French instructors, and its equipment provided foundation for that great school of "The Iron Battalion" in which men from training camps throughout the country participated to their lasting profit...
...though we rejoice in seeing Lieutenant Morize in our midst, Captain Amann's leaving is a great disappointment. Though only with us a short while the fame of his exploits with the "Iron Battalion" as well as his few talks to us made it clear that we had with us a fine soldier worthy of the respect and admiration of every memer of this corps...
...recruits from the 1917 class for his regiment. Later he accompanied them to the Verdun Army School and while there last July, was ordered to report to Col. Azan in Boston, to aid in the training of American soldiers. He was at once assigned by Col. Azan to the "Iron Battalion" of Plattsburgers then in Cambridge, and later...
...infallible instinct of Theodore Roosevelt has given us a name for all the shapes of treachery that squeak and gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...