Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind this version of a musicomedy in which the late Jack Donahue danced in 1929-30. Reluctantly embroiled in the War, Brown participates in a number of gags which culminate in his impersonating a British officer, getting involved in a battle, impersonating a German officer, bringing a German regiment back to the U. S. lines. Good pantomime: Brown, convinced that he is to be shot, rehearsing the way he will smoke a last cigaret with heroic nonchalance...
...shouting, the procession was reformed. First came a patrol of blackshirt motorcyclists, young and exuberant, followed by ten baby tanks, each one hastily named after some battle of the past seven months. Marshal Badoglio entered on horseback. Then came the cause of all the backstage commotion-a composite regiment containing detachments of as many of all the different Italian units now in Africa as possible. It was a fine show and a great pity that nobody was around to see it. Down the old Imperial Highway past the closely barricaded British legation the procession passed...
...Southern girl wrote to President Jefferson Davis: "I want you to let Jeems C. of Company Oneth, South Carolina Regiment, cum home and git married. Jeems is willin', I is willin', his mammy says she is willin', but Jeems Capn he ain't willin'. Now when we are all willin' 'cep'n Jeems Capn, I think you might let up and let Jeems come home. I'll make him go straight back when hes done got married and fight just as hard as ever." Davis countersigned the letter, "Let Jeems...
...cross section in its rigid form has been no more successful than any other attempt to regiment sociability. In the abstract the ideal of making it possible for men of all stations and classes to mingle, even if only with the measured cordiality of a Friday evening at the Somerset, has a certain nobility of tone which permits no contradiction. As it has worked out, whether the fault of University Hall or the student body, more hostility and disappointment than conviviality have resulted...
Lukewarm are small Japanese exporters on the advantages of the enormously expensive Manchukuoan conquest. Six months ago they suddenly became aware of another adventure of Japanese militar ists for which they had only the wildest enthusiasm. Last November, without the use of a single regiment, Japan's Major General Kenji Doihara set up a pro-Japanese "autonomous government" in eastern Hopei known as the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism. Its head was a twerpish-looking young man known as Yin Ju-keng, whose only flash of independence is a stolid refusal to allow himself to be photo...