Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang maintains the largest private army in the world (150,000 men) on a plane of sobriety, industry (every soldier must know a trade) and Old Testament battling Christianity...
...ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." But, says Author Linderman, when the U. S. declared war against Germany, Plenty-coups urged his young men to enlist. The Government recognized his patriotism, chose him to lay the Indian wreath on the Unknown Soldier's grave at Arlington...
...originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them...
...aged 67, Dr. Welch joined the medical reserve corps, was commissioned major. Continuing his research work, he discovered the Welch bacillus (named by others), the gas-producing organism causing "gas gangrene" which attacked many a wounded soldier. In recognition of this and other work he was commissioned brigadier general in the Officers Reserve Corps...
Some German soldier probably found the litter of puppies on a deserted Alsatian farm and took them along with him for luck. When luck went bad, he left them behind. The Allied troops getting into the captured sector found the puppies in a dugout, whimpering with hunger. They were pure-blooded Belgian police dogs with skinny ratlike bodies and long black noses. The litter was divided and one Lee Duncan, lieutenant in the U. S. aviation corps, got a handsome male and a young bitch. There was a story going around then about two lovers, Rin Tin Tin and Nanette...