Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood bareheaded that awesome morning, shortly afterwards became ill. Last week he died...
Last week for nearly two days 16-in. armor-piercing shells, big shells, little shells, powder, TNT, nitroglycerine, depth bombs, whined and slashed wantonly, smashed hamlets in all directions, popped $93,000,000 worth of Government property, slaughtered many a U. S. soldier, ripped shell holes, thundered, wounded and injured over a hundred, far and near. Fleeing refugees scuttled to remote stations, men hid in shell holes, swam the Lake, lay unsuccored on the smoking fields...
Thus wrote super-Pan Italian poet-soldier-philanderer Gabriele d'Annunzio, not long ago, and his versified words, deep cut in granite, now adorn the Brenner Monument...
...Louis Home-Trained Chorus (96) will attempt "grand opera" only once (Il Trovatore), will warble Iolanthe, The Red Mill, The Chocolate Soldier...
...Atlanta the repertoire consists exclusively of light opera: The Chocolate Soldier, The Pirates of Penzance, Katinka...