Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the dead Marshal, Marie Emile Fayolle, 76, was interred at Paris with greater pomp than has been accorded any Frenchman since the Unknown Soldier was laid beneath the Arc de Triomphe...
Pleased was France the next day when Mr. Kellogg knelt unostentatiously at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...West Point, last week, at the garage of the U. S. Military Academy there was a fire which destroyed the limousine of Major General W. R. Smith and other government property to the value of $60,000. The fire was started by a spark which sprang from a soldier's hobnailed boot...
...last week displayed a letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed for the swim. At Gatun Locks Swimmer Halliburton paid...
...Canadians" are fortunate in our name, and so are the "Australians"; but "New Zealanders" is awkward, and "South Africans" sounds as though one meant the blacks. It's all quite a problem. Personally I am still "Englishman" enough to be glad that my father was "a soldier of the Queen," though I would hate to have to fight for the present Prince of Wales, if he ever becomes King. Not but what I like him, personally; but Canada drifts further away from England every...