Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Descending on Soldier's field in a Purple avalanche the Holy Cross freshmen kept the ball almost completely in Harvard Jayvee territory except for one brief lapse and outscored them...
...approved his sentence and he was clapped into Leavenworth. The contractors were also sentenced to prison, fined $575,000. In a civil suit Carter's personal fortune of some $500,000 was awarded to the Government as compensation for its loss. After serving out his sentence, the disgraced soldier dropped into obscurity in Chicago as a consulting engineer...
...anecdotes are often capped by His Excellency with the one about the Scottish soldier from the village of Rothie-murchus who was asked where he was wounded during General Sir Stanley Maude's campaign in Irak. "I was wounded," he replied, "about a mile on the Rothiemurchus side of Baghdad...
...Harar and in from the east, complementing the thrust down from the north which last week won Aduwa (see p. 19). With 150,000 Ethiopian troops under his command, Old Eagle Beak must try to defend Ethiopia's only railway. To Correspondent Stallings, after boasting through an old soldier's repertoire of battles, Wehib Pasha finally worked up to 1935 and boomed: "The English might conquer Ethiopia or even the French, never the Italians! "It is an axiom that even water will follow the English. They move slowly, never outrunning their communications. They bring water for their troops...
Drue Van Allen (Barbara Stanwyck), in love with the driveling campus radical (Hardie Albright), is sent to Mexico to get over it by her choleric Army officer father. There she meets a roistering young soldier (Robert Young) whom she tricks into helping her get back to Washington. What at times, during the return trip in a trailer owned by an irresponsible person with a soft baritone voice (Cliff Edwards), almost becomes a passable imitation of It Happened One Night, degenerates on their arrival into a tedious display of Red-baiting, climaxed when the soldier breaks up the meeting at which...