Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until July. Then one morning the first cavalry, holding rifles across their chests, rushed up San Juan hill. Behind them was the second brigade, 500 men on horseback standing in their stirrups and galloping along, shouting curses or encouragement to one another like polo players. They called themselves the "Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt got off a little black horse to lead his men. Leonard Wood was pulling the mouth of a big roan. A few hours later that battle too was won and one soldier told another, as they pulled off their sweaty shirts, how he had frightened...
...United States is the most perfected expression of capitalism," he cried, "while the Soviet is the first rough sketch of the Socialist state...
...tunnel which he had discovered, Explorer Ashley heard a great echoing roar as a landslide filled his return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving of his torch, reached a hitherto unknown exit after wandering 70 miles through dark and crusted corridors...
...career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville institution. A few years after the Peace Con ference, the whole family retired, the Little Foys because...
...paternal ancestors disembarked from the Mayflower he met death following an operation for a tumor which had been removed 17 years ago and had regrown involving the bone of his skull. He was buried with full military honors at the Arlington National Cemetery alongside the graves of the "Rough Riders," heroic young fighters whom Theodore Roosevelt had asked him to command in the Cuban campaigns...