Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught's little rules, which he scrupulously observes: "No officer may swear in the presence of a superior officer, but he may use 'damn' to a subordinate...
Amid the corrupt peasant-born super-bandits who ruled various parts of China as "war lords" ten years ago, Marshal Wu Pei-fu was the one old-fashioned Confucian scholar. A sad-eyed, firm-jawed little man with shaved skull and bedraggled mustache, Wu is supposed to be a descendant of one of Confucius' favorite pupils. At ten he could recite from the Chinese classics interminably and with feeling. His own poetry shows a gift for direct metaphor unusual in an Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers...
...about who is going to be elected Poland's next President. Today the candidate of the "Colonel's Clique" to succeed Scientist Moscicki as President is able, energetic, shrewd General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, close crony of Inspector General Edward Rydz-Smigly who was expected to try to repeat Marshal Pilsudski's feat of managing Poland unobtrusively from behind the Army's scenes...
Then the Commission ordered a U. S. marshal to go forth and fetch Mr. Jones in person. The marshal tramped around Washington all day inquiring at every hotel. Mr. Jones was not to be found...
Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan...