Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed to the names of famed Murat, Turenne...
...Mexticac%#225;n, Jalisco. Some 50 rebels were killed, 50 more wounded. Nevertheless, President Portes Gil continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed on an injury to his eye. General Amaro's eye was reported fully recovered but just in case it should go bad again, President...
Therefore, last week, Comrade Rykov's various duties were declared too much for one man, and he was relieved as Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, i. e., the prime minister of Central Russia, though he still remained Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, i. e., the prime minister of all the Russias. Cergy Ivanovich Syrzow, a close friend of Dictator Stalin, succeeded to the first title. The suggestion was obvious to the most obtuse that further reactionary moves...
...Constantinople last week, the man who had suffered most from "Steel Man" Stalin was feverishly explaining how his pure Communist conscience permitted him to write articles for the capitalistic press of Europe and the U. S., and to receive tainted capitalistic gold for the same. Exile Leon Trotsky wrote...
...Manhattan, a man bit a horse, was fined $10 for cruelty...