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...moved up several Italian battalions which arrived in the night, doffed uniforms, put on civilian clothes and next day gave the German hooligans the beating of their lives while Italian police pretended to marvel at the frequency of brawls and fist fights. As the Nazis fled to Nazidom, the regiment resumed uniforms, the Tirol resumed its calm and in Rome spokesmen for II Duce scoffed politely at "those fantastic rumors from the Alto Adige" (Italy's name for Southern Tirol...
...French Government swore to catch Bandit Spada dead or alive, sent a whole regiment of gendarmes to Corsica under General Fournier. Though 200 excited newshawks were issued rifles and sent out into the scrub to join the chase, André Spada remained uncaught...
...Johnston was through with her. Shirley Temple is not quite six but, dressed up in flounces and high-button boots for this picture, she steps into a rôle cut down to her size with all the assurance of the capable actress she is. She reviews a regiment which has made her honorary colonel; tap dances with Bill Robinson; plays soldier with Lionel Barrymore; is the comfort of her mother's lonely life (Evelyn Venable) and even dresses up in Civil War hoopskirts to render "Love's Young Dream" on the harp...
...five men's work in a day and drank at night with the capacity of a suction pump. Was there a great spar to be lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move him. The English workmen were afraid of him and kept their distance. "The devil...
...city gates, England's finest leave a half empty punch bowl to march forth amid the plaudits of the multitude and the tender lamentations of the fair. Dainty handkerchiefs flutter from the balconies as the troops march past, for it has been "the last waltz, Madeline, and m' regiment leaves at dawn." Historically speaking, just a trifle before dawn...