Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department's "Magruder" was plain-spoken Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder who commands only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other...
...White House made no answer. Nor did General Summerall permit himself to be "sicked" into a defiant frame of mind as he journeyed eastward. "A good soldier," he said, "does as he is told." Perhaps penitently, perhaps humorously, he added that a good soldier "never talks...
...were a nurse," mused the Judge, " caring for a wounded American soldier, and observed an armed enemy approaching, would you take up a pistol and shoot the enemy...
...stoutly answered Madame Schwimmer, "but I would warn the soldier. I would not kill a man, even if he tried to kill me." She added that she might fling herself upon the enemy and try to disarm him. "That's all," said Judge Carpenter. "Petition denied...
...University of Edinburgh. Haddon is 23 years old and was born at Howick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He is a grand-nephew of J. B. Selkirk, one of the best known of Scotland's minor poets, while his father is Lieutenant Colonel Haddon, a lawyer by profession, and a soldier by virtue of a lifelong connection with the Volunteer and Territorial Armies...