Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leopold of Austria was puny of intellect, body, honor. His petty vindictiveness he turned on the one man who was indispensable to his political position-Christian of Kurland, mercenary soldier, master of the art of war, gentleman of fabulous wealth and sophisticated Versailles breeding. Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus. His soldiers adored him, all Europe feared him. Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack." Aside from legitimacy there was only...
...grimly across oceans and continents for glory or their mothers there should be no word of a flight which began last week at Stag Lane Airdrome, near London. Not an epic but an airy epigram, it told the story of a rich old man and a charming lady and soldier...
Perturbed would be a U. S. businessman, professor, poet, soldier or statesman, if President Coolidge said to him: "Please write the sentence 'Now is the time for all good men to. come to the aid of the party' in Arabic characters...
Fumbling with old fingers the President unfolded the telegram. ". . . MURDERED. . . ." he read, and then a name, ". . . TSCHIRPE. . . ."-the name of an old soldier, servitor, friend...
...This does not mean the remotest intention on my part of abandoning civic duties nor retirement from the life of struggle and responsibility which are the lot of every soldier. I know there are plenty of situations in the military, administrative, political, or civic field which I can occupy and which no matter how modest they may seem in comparison with the Presidency I now hold . . . could give me opportunity to discharge my duties as a man of the revolution...