Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that when a British soldier was reported to have touched a machine gun on a Japanese river launch, the Admiral reported to his Emperor: "The Japanese Navy has been insulted...
...volunteers with the Leftists, clamoring that therefore four must quit the Rightists for every one who quits the Leftists. Berlin threw in a small pair of pliers to the effect that both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini see no difference between a "volunteer" who is fighting as a soldier and one who is fighting as a propagandist-i.e., Der Führer and Il Duce want what they call "the Red Agents of Moscow" also withdrawn from Spain...
...Belgrade. Yugoslavia, Adyar Atchiovritch was sent to jail for four and a half years. Reason: he believed his wife was unfaithful, traded her to a soldier for a donkey...
What Franklin Roosevelt saw, as he drove in an open car along the pack-jammed waterfront, was part of the 16 mi. highway that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River...
...That was posed by a Chinese soldier in a Japanese uniform!" shrilled Lieut.-Colonel Tan Takahashi of the Tokyo Japanese General Staff to Manhattan reporters. "Our Japanese bayonet technique is entirely different from that and I can prove it!" Grabbing a pencil, the Japanese officer thrust, ripped and jabbed an imaginary enemy while yipping war cries with such realism that a female reporter was overcome with queasiness...