Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuffier!" cried the Marshal at last...
Someone, in short, had to ask the old Marshal whether he knew that a local celebration of the Victory of the Marne had been held at Meaux, without allusion of any kind to Joseph Joffre. The celebrants, all too obviously, were of that school which has grown to consider "Papa" Joffre an amiable old dunderhead who squandered his men's blood as a housewife squanders dishwater. Someone-a little ashamed of himself-put the question...
While the old Marshal pondered Mme. Joffre, sitting beside him in a rocking chair, was observed to rock more vigorously. Her husband, with half closed eyes perhaps fixed on things far away, seemed to reflect as ponderously as had Old Dr. Tuffier over backgammon. Suddenly Mme. Joffre stopped her quick rocking, sat up bristling, spoke: "I wonder-I just wonder-how many people would claim they lost the Battle of Marne, if he had lost...
...least half a millennium no one has thought of Chinamen or Chinawomen as pioneers. They have chosen not the virile and womanly covered wagon, but the sendentary and exquisite silken robe. Today China has only one Daniel Boone -the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week he lectured Chinafolk severely for their timid sit-by-the-hearthishness and failure to pioneer. "Is it any wonder," he roared, "that we are laughed at by imperialist countries, who treat us contemptuously, as though we were their little grandsons? They do not even esteem us as much as their cats and dogs...
...large feet Marshal Feng stands a full,' massive six feet tall. He towered Gargantuanly, last week, during his address to slender, slant-eyed students of both sexes at the New Nationalist University in Nanking. The students barkened breathlessly, not only because Feng is China's heroic Daniel Boone, but because he is also War Minister of the new Chinese Nationalist State and moreover absolute master of a private and pioneering army of 150,000 men (TIME...