Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then there had better be no more parades," blurts the old soldier. But there are more parades, of that kind. Tietjens' integrity sees him through and furthers a movement (for the "single command") that is to turn the War's tide. Tietjens comes out of a moral Gehenna victorious...
Hundreds of torches flamed in the great square before the Cathedral of Cologne. Over 100,000 Rhinelanders waited breathlessly for the largest church bell in Europe to toll the hour of midnight, to announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined...
...Author. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, born in Caen, France, in 1735, served under Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul...
...Paxton Hibben, prominent as a journalist, soldier, and as a member of the diplomatic service, will address the members of the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon on various phases of present conditions in Russia, from whence he has recently returned. After receiving his A.M. degree from the University in 1904, Mr. Hibben spent one year in the Law School. Four years later he was appointed attache to the American Embassy in Petrograd. Later he was a member of the American legations in Columbia, Chili, and at the Hague...
...nown Soldier...