Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While she was visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the mother of Charles Nungesser, and dressmakers (her second day in Paris), the native press speculated about heart interest. Interviewed with Mr. Haldeman, she was asked why she did not bring her husband with her. Said she: "Because he weighs too much gasoline...
...shot him five times. I shot him like a soldier who knows how to shoot, and I shot straight so as not to hit any innocent passerby. At the fifth shot he fell. He didn't say a word. There were only cries and convulsions...
...John Burgoyne was born in London in 1722. The family was of good old stock. . . ." Gentleman Johnny, like many a brave young man of his day or of any day, spent his youth in riotous and genial diversions. A soldier but not inelegant, he wrote a letter to a lord and signed...
...President unveiled in the Botanical Gardens a statue of Major General George Gordon Meade, "gallant soldier and Christian gentleman," hero of Gettysburg. (Pennsylvania gave the statue...
...story of Kitty, a shopgirl, Alex St. George, who marries her, and Clara St. George, his tigerish mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve to excuse his habit of seizing his wife and making to her "a passionate, dear murmuring," on three separate occasions. Nor will the fact that Author Deeping has become a notable writer by the virtues of his previous books serve to excuse the sloppy writing with which...