Word: martially
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...purpose. It takes questions of citizenship, of ready and unflagging loyalty, of steady and watchful Americanism, as the leading objects of its attention. It supplies a unique example of a body of soldiers whose chief interest lies in the maintenance of the civic as opposed to the martial idea. The soldiership which it exemplifies is the citizen soldiership, which stands for the patriotism of the school and the ballot box as well as the patriotism of the tented field...
...meet to honor those who in this place will meet no more. The guns are silent now; the drums have ceased to beat, the battle flags are furled, and men return to common toll. The martial fire has cooled; the harmony among the peoples that fought side by side fast fades away; the inspiration of the cause has been obscured. But a deeply precious thing remains--the memory of those who in the glowing spirit of self-sacrifice gave their lives for all that we hold dean. They died for naught if we forget that by their death they taught...
...Suddenly the students of Peking University demonstrated. In the course of their demonstration they gave a beating to two or three statesmen who were suspected of favoring Japan. Their action sent a thrill through the country. A number of them were arrested and the city was practically put under martial law. The Chancellor of the University, a great liberal leader, resigned under pressure, and the students organized and made definite demands on the government...
...returned from France where he was in service with the American Expeditionary Forces. He was commissioned a major of infantry at the First Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg and assigned to the Transport and Military Police at Camp Devens where he was a member of the Board of Court Martial. In 1918 he was assigned to the Army General Staff College of the A. E. F. and sent to France...
...private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award of the V. C. But all this is of little moment, except to hold the production together and prevent its deteriorating into vaudeville...