Word: regimentations
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...Wehib Pasha. Four columns under General Graziani were attempting to surround the town, batter it to submission. Charging again & again through thorn bushes and over huge boulders, men from Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco fell never to rise again, for leading the central column under a General Frusci was a regiment composed largely of Italian-American volunteers...
First Gas Regiment...
...with an S.S. Van Dine thriller filling out the bill. In the first, a gem of pure wit in Kelland's best Satevepost style, Mr. Deeds is a country boy from Vermont whose uncle's death leaves him a fortune of twenty millions, complete with town house and a regiment of vassals from a major-domo to a pair of plug-ugly bodyguards. With a bank account that "will do in a pinch," he locks the guards in a closet and sets out on a series of binges in New York that put the metropolis in a tremble...
...Mihai Viteazul' (Michael the Brave), which was created in 1916 and corresponds to our Victoria Cross. . . . M. Golovan came to the funeral of King George as a member of the delegation of this order, which comprised also a Rumanian general and two colonels. A sublieutenant in a Chasseur regiment during the War, he won the coveted honor by valor in the field. . . . "In October 1916, under fierce enemy fire he succeeded in cutting an Austrian barbed wire entanglement and led a storming party to the capture of an important ridge position. By this deed he not only gained...
...every street car still, and amid the snow Japanese soldiers with their greatcoats buttoned over the divisional numbers on their collars looked all alike. Scared as rabbits, Japanese civilians learned by grapevine rumor that, if a coat blew open revealing its wearer to be of the First or Third Regiment of the Tokyo Division, he was probably one of the dastards and not a regular army man. With the Empire cut off from the world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon (as Japanese poetically call their Empire...