Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year later when the exhibition opened in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, newspaper critics who were uncertain how to treat Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, leaped at the Nude Descending a Staircase as a safe object of ridicule. Daily stories announced that it had been hung upside down, that it was the work of a madman. The picture was promptly bought by the late San Francisco Art Dealer Frederic C. Torrey who sold it to Author Walter Arensberg...
...land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of the line -the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. . . . Nevertheless-and I speak from a long experience-the effective maintenance of American neutrality depends today, as in the past, on the wisdom...
...this sultry, tense atmosphere, some Socialists last week leaned out of their headquarters windows in the North African garrison town of Melilla in Spanish Morocco and brashly booed a regiment of the famed Spanish Foreign Legion, marching home from drill. The Legionnaires broke ranks, threw the Socialists out their own windows. At this a huge revolt, carefully planned, erupted into plain view and silence descended on Spain...
Charles Keck (U. S. S. Maine Memorial) was fashioning an 18-ft. Celtic cross to back the figure of the late Father Francis P. Duffy, famed Wartime chaplain of the 69th New York Regiment. This $15,000 job, to adorn Manhattan's Times Square, was given direct to Sculptor Keck by the Father Duffy Memorial Committee and approved by the New York Municipal Art Commission...
...also must have been a stunning blow to 560 men of a certain Northern regiment, whose time being expired, refused to stay over for an emergency. Three hundred from the same regiment did stay and, simply because of this, the whole shebang, goers and stayers, were bemedalled...