Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their unbeaten record, it should be remembered that Brown too was a strong and undefeated team until the Crusaders buried the Bruins under a 32 to 0 avalanche two weeks ago. True, Holy Cross had no easy time beating Duquesne last Saturday, but many of the Worcesterites were at Soldier's Field picking out ragged spots in Harvard play at the time. if both elevens run true to form, Albie Booth and his loyal band will trek back to New Haven Sunday filled with ominous forbodings, not the least of which might be a suspicion that a three weeks layoff...
Then Mendel's sons grew up to military age. Shemariah escaped over the border, went to the U. S., but Jonas was taken for a soldier. Daughter Miriam grew up too, began to go into the wheatfields with Cossacks. Mendel and his wife, married too long, were sick of the sight of each other. One fine day a letter came from Shemariah: he was doing well in the U. S.. would soon send them money to join him. When the time came they left idiot Menuchim behind with friends. They found Shemariah was indeed doing well...
When middle-aged Don Geronimo took a beautiful young wife, Favia, he was a long time noticing how Esteban looked at her. By the time he did, and sent Esteban off to be a soldier, the damage was done. The army was just the life for Esteban: he had a fine time and learned a lot. Then there was an Indian uprising; he applied for active service, saw plenty. came back not only a colonel but a hero. Life, which he liked simple, began to grow complicated. He put horns on Don Geronimo's hat, and Favia loved...
...large, best soldiers of the Confederacy were Gentlemen; best soldiers of the Union were not. Philip Henry Sheridan's only articles of gentility were contained in his officer's commission. His Irish immigrant father was a laborer, rose to be foreman and small contractor. Sheridan wanted to be a soldier; when he wangled an appointment to West Point he worked desperately hard to get in, desperately hard to get through. A funny-looking little fellow, with a big head, long arms, short bowlegs, he resented personal remarks and was constantly getting into fights; "on many occasions Sheridan...
...première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...