Word: regimentations
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...National indoor tennis championship (men's singles and doubles), at 7th Regiment Armory, Manhattan...
...National indoor tennis championship (men's singles and doubles), 7th Regiment Armory, Manhattan...
...bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted but unprepossessing lover is killed in a duel just after she has finally agreed to marry him. Masha's adulterous transports with a visiting lieutenant-colonel are ended when the regiment marches away. Maria Germanova plays Masha-a big, dark woman who laughs hysterically as her desires mount above her repressions and who whimpers like a wounded animal when her lover departs. Chekhov's humans are like impatient beasts of burden who see vaguely beyond their beastliness. Each is forever...
...later founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency), to investigate. His report influenced Lincoln to make no public appearance, to entrain quietly for Washington. Southern papers quickly screamed that he was a coward. In Baltimore, the slighted city, citizens incensed at his failure to appear, wrecked vengeance on a Massachusetts regiment on its way through their city. Harper's Weekly printed a full-page series of cartoons showing a grotesquely night-capped and bewhiskered Lincoln sitting up in bed while a lackey shouts: "The Blood tubs are after yer!" Lincoln replies...
When war was declared Graves enlisted almost at once, got a commission in the famed line regiment, Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill: the only blot on its scutcheon was the surrender at Yorktown. In the Royal Welch the atmosphere was much the same as at Charterhouse: the regular officers resented and despised "outsiders." but discipline was perfect, morale high; they were pretty fighters...