Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saw Lee surrender to Grant...
Before the War, Mangin saw service in Senegal, the French Sudan, the Congo (Fashoda) under Colonel Marchand, in Tonkin, West Africa and Morocco, gradually rising to the rank of Brigadier General...
...present Duke is a descendant of another famous soldier, the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England, whose title he still possesses, being the tenth Duke. The first Duke of Berwick saw service under his father and later under Louis XIV of France. Montesquieu in his eloge cites that so great was his courage and ability that all parties were anxious to have him on their side. Before his death, he became a French subject and a Marshal of France...
...Berry School, told how Miss Berry had gone to him at the White House to get introductions to philanthropists: "When Miss Berry turned up ... there were a good many statesmen in the room with her. I looked at the letter of introduction, then glanced at the pamphlet; then I saw Miss Berry at once, and when they tried to interrupt me, I said: 'Let them wait...
...little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen, presidential candidates and sharkies, who knew a horse when they saw one, tried to see one, elbowing one another, as 20 nimble three-year-olds paraded to the barrier...