Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commencement festivities will reach a climax today with Class Day exercises in the House triangle and in the Stadium. Nearly 8000 graduates and friends are expected to attend the rites and to march in the mile long parade to Soldier's Field...
...grade, patted Marshal Badoglio affectionately on the back, presented a bouquet to the Marshal's wife, affably greeted their daughter. Later Emperor Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio reviewed troops amid deafening plaudits near the Triumphal Arch of Constantine. Once home, the Viceroy of Ethiopia confided with an old soldier's simple candor the main reason why he did in fact return to Rome last week...
...night last week on the island of Hawaii, a Territorial Forester named Leslie W. Bryan had a vivid dream. In it he saw a dirty, ragged, wretched soldier at a certain lonely spot on the slopes of Mauna Loa. Before daylight Forester Bryan was on his way to that spot. He knew that for a week an alarm had been out for Private Edward Deal, missing from an Army rest camp. Sure enough, at the spot he had seen in his dream, Forester Bryan found dirty, ragged, wretched Private Deal, saved his life...
...theory about such prophetic dreams, which make frequent news-stories, is that they are simple-minded fables. Quite different is the elaborate, long-pondered theory of John William Dunne, British soldier, engineer, sportsman and aeronautical inventor.* Nearly 40 years ago John William Dunne began to have dreams which waking experiences later confirmed. He dreamed, for example, that his watch had stopped at a certain time, woke to find that it had indeed stopped at that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition...
...week's end Nazis and Heimwehrmen were snapping at each other and bespectacled Kurt von Schuschnigg was still boss of the Fatherland Front. Last week at the ''Old Soldier's Day" celebration in suburban Aspern. newshawks saw 8,000 men in all sorts of uniforms, but not one of the feathered caps of the Heimwehr. Chancellor von Schuschnigg abandoned his cutaway and buttoned himself into his Wartime officer's tunic...