Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home even if he had wanted to, for his native town was soon inside the German lines. But Tarabas thrived on war, got medals, promotion, respect and fear. Out of a job when the Revolution broke up the Russian Army, Tarabas went home with the faithful fragment of his regiment, only to find that his native land was no longer a part of Russia but an independent country. As commander of the garrison town of Koropta, Tarabas was not so happy or so successful as he had been in the field. When a pogrom occurred, Tarabas was too drunk...
...Princeton man had left the stands, lo, the posts swayed, fell, and were gone; just to show what the Navy from out of Cambridgeport can do when aroused. Incidentally, it will be interesting to see how this Battalion of Death manages to parade as a loyal West Point regiment next Saturday. The lack of uniforms will be most revealing...
...Atheist is unhappily God-obsessed. The Old Woman, lamenting a lost soldier-lover, maunders about placing wreaths on a huge and sombre War memorial. Only The Dreamer, bravely played by curly-headed Bramwell Fletcher, stands up for The Young Whore when, as she is expiring, the wretched, drum-beating regiment of Down-And-Outs come to carry her off to perdition. This final scene finds Mr. O'Casey at his stoical, bitter best...
...Mexico's 1910-20 period of revolutions. Graduated from the University of Virginia, Oscar Underwood Jr. was in Paris as a law clerk for a U. S. firm when war broke out in 1914. Back home in 1916, he served on the Mexican border with his Alabama militia regiment, then to France in 1917, did not take off his uniform until 1919. Now 44, he is identified with the anti-Bonus American Veterans Association, is a partner in the Washington firm of Underwood & Kilpatrick, is currently engaged in practice before the German Mixed Claims Commission...
...Wright's distinction as a surgeon lies in his handling of fractured skulls, of which hurly-burly Harlem has supplied him with more than 1,000. His special duty as a fellow of the College of Surgeons will be to regiment Negro doctors behind the College's policy of fostering insurance policies to pay hospital bills. As with every intelligent Negro, genetics is an immediate personal concern to Dr. Wright. His complexion is light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited...