Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich, including well-rendered "architectural" pictures of Munich's Alter Hof (see cut) and of its National Theatre, a country house outside Munich. It all ended in August 1914. Hitler, a humble, alien lover of monarchical Germany, enlisted, not in the Austrian Army, but in the 16th Infantry Regiment of the King of Bavaria...
Today 85, but still taking his setting-up exercises every morning, Connaught has been a holy terror all his life to every regiment he has honored by inspection. Unlike Nephew George V, whose object on such occasions is to have everything go off smoothly, Uncle Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal...
Only U. S. Naval Academy midshipman ever to win five "N-stars" for victories over Army, Fred ("Buzz") Berries of Louisville, Ky., took a re-examination in English, passed, graduated as No. 385½ in his class. Day before graduation, Midshipman Borries stepped before the regiment, received from Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers the Navy Athletic Association's sword as the Academy's outstanding athlete. Following graduation Ensign Borries had his epaulets pinned on, was presented with a big hug & kiss by "Gussie" Mae Hanley of Washington...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
...great deal more than its claim as expert muck-raking. It is a rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days in the collective life of a french regiment of the line and in the individual lives, presented in a counterpoint pattern, of a number of the members of the regiment, from privates to the division commander. The division commander lusts for a star of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, so he orders the exhausted regiment...