Word: soldiering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...medals and decorations of Jules Vedrines, famed airman, were to be put up for auction at Paris. The auctioneer, however, refused to sell them. Said he: "I am a wounded soldier myself, and could not stand to see a fellow soldier's cross being auctioned to the highest bidder. The official auctioneer's duty consists of selling stuff given him for that purpose, but this time I took it upon myself to act differently...
...France has changed too and does not satisfy him. Then, by accident, he reads of the suicide of Annice's father. He comes back to her. They marry. And he manages to find some measure of content. This is a first novel. It is the story of the ex-soldier who cannot adjust himself and, as such, should be widely interesting. It is not well planned, however, and written with hardly enough distinction to command quite all the praise it has received...
Died. General Lee Christmas, 61, famed soldier of fortune, simultaneous general of five Central American armies, friend of the late Richard Harding Davis and original of the hero in Soldiers of Fortune; at New Orleans, of acute anemia...
Following a strenuous workout yesterday afternoon at Soldier's Field, Coach E. D. Farrell's squad of University and Freshman track athletes will take only light exercise during the remainder of the week, in anticipation of the vigorous competition of the B. A. A. games Saturday night...
...miss a front page heading prelating thereto would be an unusual surprise. Graft existed in all departments of the government, and burdensome taxes were imposed in order to supply wages for thousands of government employees, whose work was to devise new methods of increasing their personal property. Even the soldier who had faced several years of hell on frozen peaks was the object of ridicule, jeers, and often the victim of brutal assaults. A brother of mine, who was an officer in the Italian army at that time, wrote to me from Milan that to wear a uniform...