Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this anniversary (Feb. 22) of Sherman's visit to my ancestral Mt. Hope here at Ridgeway my great aunts, aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
...which is really an oily liquid, was called "the king of battle gases" although it was seldom fatal unless its vapor was inhaled. Masks were of little use, since mustard gas penetrated ordinary clothing and shoes easily, raising huge red welts which sometimes ulcerated and always laid the soldier low for a month or more. When splashed around by shells it contaminates everything it touches for days. It is therefore more valuable for defense than offense, since it is impracticable for attackers to move forward through a mustard-shelled area. Mustard was not introduced until 1917 and comprised less than...
...years, later, in 1359, like his own gay "yong Squier," he was a soldier in the large army with which Edward invaded France. Captured and ransomed by the King, he was shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
...whole army had repudiated your "spunky" General, but that he was the only man that the Azana Government at that time could get to take the post of Minister of War. The only man on whom they could rely to do their bidding. The man who had pocketed the soldier's pay, and other little genteel acts along those lines. I quote from a letter smuggled out of Madrid: "It is certain that the militia had not the courage to go out and fight the battle in the open but have consistently run back into the city where they...
...With a soldier's contempt for the feelings of the Anarchist, Communist and assorted Marxist adherents of the Valencia Cabinet of Premier Largo Caballero in Spain last week, White Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his radiorating General Queipo de Llano appoint as Military Governor of Málaga, just captured from the Reds (TIME. Feb. 15), a soldierly Bourbon, the middle-aged Duke of Seville, onetime Colonel in the Spanish Infantry of King Alfonso XIII...