Word: martially
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...final blow has been dealt, and by none other than the American Legion, which has a number of methods quite remarkably its own of coming before the public eye. In witness whereof Boston is at this very moment reverberating to the martial (albeit slightly unsteady and irregular) tramp of feet, the blat of tubas, the rattle of canes (in Heu of musketry) and the clash of an indescribable array of colors. Her citizenry has the opportunity of feasting its eyes upon an unparalleled collection of 100 per cent Americans and hats. Admittedly not as many of these ardent militarists have...
...hand over the executive power to Vice President Enrique V. Martinez, trusty henchman. Under the Argentine Constitution a president can do this whenever he feels like it, can also resume his full original powers by a stroke of the pen. First act of Temporary President Martinez was to declare martial law and clap on iron censorship-but no rigor could conceal the angry disappointment of the people. Those bombs should have meant the end of El Hombre's dictatorship, and they were going to mean...
...Neal of the Georgia National Guard hastened to Darien with 25 men and machine guns. Armed townsmen tramped past the machine guns, grim and unmolested, entered Darien's jail, shot George Grant dead-lynching No. 13 of this year. Gov. Lamartine Griffin Hardman ordered Darien under martial...
...Peru was the revolution's starter, vigorous Colonel Sanchez Cerro. Further the Junta warned the Almirante Grau that if the cruiser did not immediately put about, return Augusto Leguia to Peru to await proper punishment, the cruiser would be considered an enemy vessel, its crew subject to court martial...
...Although she is reluctant to discuss her history prior to the publication of her forthcoming memoirs, these facts are known of the life & times of Amy Leslie: She was born at West Burlington, Iowa, in 1860, one year before the Civil War began. Dramatically she has suggested her early martial impressions: "Before my ears were attuned to music or my eyes keen for sunshine, the muffled throb of drums and shuffling feet beating time bore strange wonderings to my small, eager mind." After she was graduated from St. Mary's Academy (South Bend, Ind.) in 1876, she took...