Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Irene. Ahlberg, Miss America to be specific, arrived on the scene at this moment, all exuberance and powder. And these two were followed by such a galaxy of Bodies Beautiful that any further coherent conversation was impossible. A ripple of voices, a few whisps of silk, a hasty retreat and the fifty six candle power light of beauty had vanished behind a very final looking stage door
...band, returning to its post, halts, "Sounds Off" again, and, because this is Sunday, breaks into "Nearer My God to Thee" so that all and sundry may realize this is the Sabbath. The buglers sound "Retreat" and the sunset gun barks. Kaydets snicker as the cits jump at the report. The battalion come to attention and then to "Present Arms" as the National Anthem is played. Then the adjutant publishes the orders, officers and guidons go front and center and the Corps passes in review...
Birthday. Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany. Day: Oct. 2. Age: 83. Celebration: at a retreat in the Bavarian Alps, gravely pondering political embroilments in Berlin...
...Farewell to Arms is the story of their meeting, wooing, mating and her death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917. There are numerous incidental characters who inhabit the play as they did the novel; but in the novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...
...days the "Blue" army, (one division) inflating itself to look as much as possible like 50,000 Frenchmen, advanced slowly, methodically against the reds. Third day maneuvers went into reverse. General Heye, chief umpire, commander of the Reichswehr, announced that "the Red army has had enough practice in retreating," ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers, determined not to carry any heavy ammunition back to barracks blazed away with enthusiasm. One machine gun crew ripped off belts of blank cartridges with such gusto that...