Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find Ralph Forbes and bring him back to Loretta Young. He gets to him just in time, for Forbes is dying in a desert grain pit. Beau Ideal's swaggering Legionnaires will delight only those who thought Beau Geste was the best picture ever made. Best shot : court-martial of Ralph Forbes...
...first time since the War, foreign consuls in socialistic Hamburg wore diplomatic uniforms at a Bolivar ceremony in the Rathaus, were told that similar ceremonies were going on at the same time in Paris, Rome, Brussels. Spain. With an insidious revolution gnawing at his throne, all Spain under martial law, Alfonso XIII celebrated Bolivar Day in Madrid by riding in an open carriage under a skeleton guard to attend the memorial mass at the Church of San Francisco...
This situation also the Government's troops soon had in hand. Martial law was proclaimed throughout the land. Major Franco had to jump into his plane again, fly away. Came a report he had crashed to his death 300 kilometres east of Madrid...
...uniform of the Harvard band is criticized by a graduate in the current Alumni Bulletin on the grounds that it is "very, very high-schooly". This graduate feels that the martial strains the band produces and the precision of its military formations are far superior to the outward trappings of its members...
Officials pointed out that to win the distinction of common military burial among Frenchmen who fell in the War one must, according to law, have died between Aug. 2, 1914 and Oct. 24. 1919. whereas martial Marshal Petain is still alive...