Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Coolidge brought into Washington from the plains Col. Osmun Latrobe as his aide, that weather-bitten old soldier was so patiently bored that the President gave him an additional assignment as assistant to the Chief of Cavalry...
...Although I have no authorization," Carillo answered, "and my honor as a soldier does not permit me to enter into discussions with such individuals that have lost all military decorum, I accept, nevertheless, these exchanges under condition that they refer to your unconditional surrender...
...said the General, almost as affected as the white-faced cadet before him, "you must be a good soldier, a husband to your mother, and a father to your sister...
...Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute was deeply troubled. Gen. William Horner Cocke (Virginia National Guard) had resigned as V.M.I. superintendent. Soldier-Educators were hard to find. Last week a committee of the Board of Visitors called upon Maj. Gen. John Archer Lejeune, lately relieved as Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps (TIME, Feb. 18) and asked if he would accept the superintendency if it were officially tendered. He indicated he would...
...humane custom to break the legs of the crucified to speed Death. But Christ died on the cross. Nevertheless, nervously, impulsively, a Roman soldier pierced the body with his spear. Joseph the Arimathaean asked for the body and buried it in a tomb he had intended for himself, where no man had ever lain...