Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before General Wood reached the Philippines, and more venomously after he got there, the old talk against him echoed. The General has always had to face criticism from Army people because he is a great civilian, and from civilians because he is a great soldier. But the story of how he won the confidence of U. 3. regulars in the Philippines reads like a tale of the Round Table. The General went at once himself where the germs were thickest, the bolos sharpest. For 18 months he was almost daily in peril of life. When he finished...
...first definite preparations for the initial turn-out of the football aspirants were started yesterday, when the newly called out managerial candidates reported at the Soldier's Field Locker Building. Their work consisted in overhauling the supply room and starting to put the equipment in shape...
There lived in Spain toward the end of the 16th Century a certain Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, soldier of fortune retired to devote himself to literature, who, weary of the frothy, extravagant romances that had so long been the vogue in Spain, set himself to mock his scribbling brothers with a tale more fantastic than any that had been written. A great satirist, Cervantes?a greater poet. He took for his hero a knight as mad as the northwind, put him through incredible paces, made him withal so real, so courageous, so pathetic, so magnificent that not for three centuries...
With the recent bequest to the University of $2,000,000 in memory of General Artemas Ward of the class of 1748, the income to be applied among other things "to establish his reputation, too long neglected as a devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...
...Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...