Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldier who achieved these things was born in Naples, his father a commoner, his mother a baroness. Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than...
With all the coaches present the spring football season was opened yesterday afternoon at Soldier's Field with all ceremony. Twenty-nine men reported to Head Coach Arnold Horween '20, at two o'clock and were taken in hand by Mr. Horween and assistants. Equipment was passed out and signed for, and each man was given a printed part to study...
...Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does the Stravinsky of today appear to a handful of those who pretend to understand...
...collection, however, is the autographed manuscript of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," probably his best known poem. This was first published in the newspapers. The soldiers in Crimea, seeing the poem, sent a request to the government that copies of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" be sent to all of them in Crimea. The worn, crumpled copy in the exhibition belonged to a soldier...
...Capital of Queensland, founded in 1825 as a penal colony by Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Scottish soldier and astronomer who was then Governor of Australia...