Word: modrzejewski
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...Sabers. At a Medal of Honor ceremony for Marine Corps Major Robert J. Modrzejewski and 2nd Lieut. John J. McGinty III,* Johnson recalled Roosevelt's reminder five months after Pearl Harbor: "We have had no illusions about the fact that this is a tough job-and a long one." He added: "Responsibility never comes easy. Neither does freedom come free." As for the "open," "undisguised" North Vietnamese aggression, said Johnson, reverting to Abe, "the early pretense of attempting to fool some of the people some of the time had the cloak pulled from around it and even they have...
...Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English, Ralph Modjeski played her Chopin's nocturnes on the piano...
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