Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War Professor Langer served in the First Gas Regiment of the United States Army and participated in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives. He is the author of several books on European diplomatic history, and has become an outstanding authority in his field...
...from Humphrey Cobb's recent best-selling novel (TIME, June 3) about a reputedly authentic incident on the French front in 1915, it looks at war from a more intimate and shocking angle than Dr. Holmes's dreamy drama. The tale has to do with a gallant regiment of the line which is called upon by a sadistic, medal-hungry general to take a heavily fortified German hill, "The Pimple " after two previous attacks have failed'. The regiment is cut to pieces before it gets through its own wire. The general goes into a psychopathic rage, demands...
...With bands blaring, salutes thundering from the minuscule Polish Navy, and a regiment of Poland's oversized, thoroughly potent Army stiff at attention, up the Pilsudski's mast climbed the flag of Poland. With her Diesel engines smoothly turning, the Dictator's namesake sailed forth on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, will provide U.S. citizens for the first time with a 100% modern liner on which they and their motor cars can sail direct to Poland in 87 days with Tourist as the top class ($168.50, exclusive of automobile...
...Love." Since the Duke of Gloucester was obliged to mourn last week, he prepared to withdraw to the bachelor seclusion of his regiment at Catterick Camp. It was he who in 1926 represented King George at the marriage of Belgian Crown Prince Leopold and the beautiful young Swedish Princess who last week died Queen Astrid...
...Rathbone) learns from Anna's expression what she is feeling; the morning, long after she has left her husband, when Anna returns to see her son (Freddie Bartholomew); the day when Vronsky, sick of a relationship which has cut him off from his world, leaves Anna to join his regiment; and the snowy night when Anna goes to the station to say goodby to him and waits alone after he is gone, to kill herself. Largely omitted from all this are the vital secondary themes of the novel, the marriage of Levin (Gyles Isham) and Kitty (Maureen O'Sullivan...