Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon the tomb. The three then stepped back and bowed their heads in reverence. Mrs. Coolidge then advanced and laid a white rose...
...alleged that "General" Frank Sutton, "British soldier of fortune and an expert on trench mortars," has been retained for some time past as a military consultant with dictatorial powers, by Chang. And cables picture him as not only reorganizing Chang's entire military machine, but as having devised "a new and easily manufactured form of trench mortar," which the minions of Chang are supposed to be turning out in large numbers...
...farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all," said Emerson. "Man is priest and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier..... The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, a good finger, a neck, a stomach an elbow (he might have added a head), but never a man. Man is this metamorphosed into a thing, into many things . . . . In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when...
...sketch of Colonel Winship: "He is the embodiment of Sir Philip Sidney's definition of a gentleman. But Blanton Winship of Georgia is not only the politest man in the Army of the United States. He is more than manners. He is a gifted lawyer and a fine soldier. He is an exceptional horseman and always has owned good horses...
Observers recalled that Germany has no "unknown soldier"; remarked that it is apparently in-tended to raise up the shade of Baron von Richthofen as a titanic figure epitomizing German War-heroism...