Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There have been cases where a genuinely wounded soldier was accompanied by others who ... of their own initiative took this chance to leave the firing line...
...state procession passed through newly renamed Mussolini Square, one of the Queen's snow-white Arab horses reared dangerously. A nimble Hungarian soldier sprang to his head in time to avert damage to Her Majesty. About 30 persons were overcome by the heat but otherwise it was a successful parade. Hungarian police had carefully searched every house along the route, ordered all households that had no flags to buy them...
First versions of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke, and other famous poems originally published in "Poetry" magazines are on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library...
Died. Major General John Lincoln Clem. 85, U.S.A. retired, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"; in San Antonio. Tex. Last Civil War veteran on the active list (until 1916), and youngest U. S. soldier ever to win a sergeant's chevrons. Orphan John Clem joined the Army by stowing away at 10 in a baggage car bound for a mobilization camp at Covington. Ky. He met the Civil War President in 1864, and decided to take Lincoln for his middle name...
Today the R.O.T.C. stages its first grand review at Harvard. If a certain particularly ornery horse doesn't lie down on the soldier who buttons his cinch, it will probably not be the last. Military science and Naval Science have large followings at Harvard as at other colleges. And if these R.O.T.C. men believe in the merits of preparedness and the rather completed ineptitude of the present U.S. force in comparison with other armies, let them make their grand demonstration today be but the opening gun in their own noise making campaign for the ideal of preparedness as against that...