Word: martially
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...arguments he presents against even voluntary camps are pretty much those of the Student Union, but, as in last month's Hicks controversy, the "Progressive's" sponsors seem to come out on the bottom. To claim that a philosophy which proposes work service as an outlet for the martial spirit is a war-mongering philosophy seems hardly logical, and to insist that the whole voluntary work camp movement is part of a huge conspiracy to foist compulsory labor camps on American youth seems hardly sensible...
...edge on the Tommies in the competition for local girls, particularly Canadians with their high pay. The feud between one Scots I regiment and a Polish one quartered near by is so bitter that Highland privates have taken to socking Polish officers, are only "warned" by courts-martial...
Couple of months ago, aureoled Leopold Stokowski got the U. S. Army to let him tinker with a military band at Fort MacArthur, Calif. Shortly Maestro Stokowski proclaimed that martial music should be rescored, chiefly with more saxophones; that Army bands should be sent into battle in tanks and armored cars, tootling the while. Last week the American Bandmasters' Association, meeting in Madison, Wis., officially resolved that Dr. Stokowski should mind his talk: he was "incapable of speaking with authority on bands...
...Martial law was declared in Santander and Spanish relief agencies said they had the situation in hand. Foreign diplomats contributed to the relief fund. Italian Ambassador Francesco Lequio gave 10,000 pesetas in the name of Benito Mussolini, "always a friend of Spain." U. S. Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell's wife gave 10,000 pesetas, Rumania's onetime King Carol 3,000, German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer a "generous contribution." British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare announced that two ships laden with grain for Britain would be diverted to Santander. Everybody wanted to do something neighborly for politically...
Blind: a court-martial fine...