Word: rampart
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...beards her husband in the Rampart Street den of his fancy lady and implores him to come back and try to save what is left of their worldly goods and of their lives. He is just getting around to the latter project, with his first cooperation from her, when, after two long hours, the picture ends. The moral appears to be that money isn't everything...
First his music was slow and mournful, wailing and growling, on Dear Old Southland and Summertime. Then it was fast and happy, on New Orleans' oldtime South Rampart Street Parade. After that came soft, sentimental ballads, like Love for Sale...
...Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition to several Red cities (notably Chengteh ana Changchun) they had cleared many miles of economically vital North China railroads...
...Opium! Behind the rampart, the Marxists of Ivry truculently cried: "We want no opium for the people! Down with the Church!" Before the rampart, young acolytes swung their censers, priests muttered Ave Marias, the Virgin serenely waited. Suddenly a handful of police appeared, led the Virgin to a safe night's rest in the Church of Ivry...
...drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. . . . No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around...