Word: roughton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face belonged to one Albert Nye Roughton, 54, U. S. citizen. Worn, wrinkled, penniless, he had tramped from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Washington to tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned...
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