Word: leathernecks
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...report in his notebook, tore it out, sent it along in the patrol boat as his last report. As a Marine of 18 years' service, afloat and ashore, he must have been aware that he was adding another classic to the library of impersonal letters written by leatherneck officers since the first of the Corps sailed with John Paul Jones...
...authorized quota of 193,000, was in no hurry to get them, figured that next March would be time enough to complete its full fighting strength. Reasons for the superior drawing power of the Navy over the Army were better pay, more chance to see the world. A leatherneck recruiting officer put it another way for his outfit. Said he: "It's the . . . old oomph that brings them...
...Japanese, tardily deciding to reopen the wounds to their feelings, asserted next day that the gendarmes had been mauled by the devil dogs-beaten about the hips and legs with rifle butts, struck in the face, so that they were cut inside their mouths. Colonel Peck, a leatherneck in the classic tradition, stood his ground and flatly said...
...sent Colonel Charles F. B. Price to visit the Japanese commander and tell him to get his men out. The Marine officers had to do a good deal of bellowing and bristling to get to the Japanese commander. "You are practically invading the United States defense sector!" yelled monolingual Leatherneck Price, thus whooping the word "INVASION!" into a thousand scareheads. "You must withdraw immediately...
...wrong man: a gambler, a roué, diseased. To her family Nasa put up a falsetto front, but when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared war on Germany, she went to Manhattan, amused herself with many a departing soldier, gob and leatherneck. She further amused herself by sending her ex-husband a memento of each occasion. When her mother began to die, Nasa went home. As you leave her she has not taken on anybody new, but there is someone in the offing...