Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indoor stadium, not to be confused with Soldier Field, occupies a full city block on West Madison Street, two miles from the "Loop." Its seating capacity is 25,000. Its organ, strong as 25 brass bands, smashes electric light bulbs by its vibration when played fortissimo. Delegates will not have to sweat disgustingly in their shirtsleeves, because the huge building is equipped with an airicing machine to maintain...
...naval officer left a Honolulu dinner party to walk home. Five men, presumably Orientals, dragged her into their automobile, smashed her jaw, carried her to Waikiki Beach where they raped her, tossed her into a ditch. Honolulu was outraged, for the young woman was the daughter of a gallant soldier, the granddaughter of one of the world's greatest inventors. Her name, though known, is mentioned as rarely as possible in the Press in order to save her from further embarrassment...
...playing-fields. But he throve in the army, won his spurs in India, was promoted fast. In the Peninsular War he made his reputation, showed that French troops were not invincible. Gradually, methodically he drove Napoleon's armies back to France. A painstaking rather than a brilliant soldier, he worked his men almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner?-his answer was invariable: "At daylight; cold meat." His men trusted him, admired him at a distance; called him "that long-nosed...
...Soldier, Not a Gun." So much for Red fireworks. But in his quiet office, seated behind his paper-strewn desk, Klim Voroshilov gave an interview, his first to the foreign Press...
...reports of transfer of Red soldiers to the Manchurian border or to anywhere in Siberia are nonsense," said Klim. "Not a soldier, not a gun has been shifted to that region. Our future policy toward Japan will depend entirely upon the sincerity of Japan's desire to maintain neighborly relations with...