Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France took no official notice, but in Paris a file of wounded veterans clumped up the Champs Elysees to dip their flags over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in honor of their comrades who died during the Ruhr occupation. A third demonstration took place two days earlier when a crowd of nearly 1,000 Jews & Communists rioted at a Brooklyn quayside, waiting to boo Hans Weidemann and Gotthold Schneider, Hitler's not particularly welcome envoys to the Chicago World's Fair. Dozens of heads were cracked, 13 rioters arrested...
...brought up in the old Free Church which was merged with the Church of Scotland in 1929, when the Duke of York was Lord High Commissioner. A quiet, knobbly-browed Scotsman, he has been playwright, actor, newsman, publisher, lawyer, justice of the peace, agriculturist, tax expert, Wartime propagandist, soldier, lecturer, mountain-climber, angler. He sits in Commons for the Scottish Universities, is a trustee of the National Library of Scotland. Best known of his rare bills in Commons was for greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known in the U. S. for his adventurous, Kiplingesque...
...made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables, soaring up between the Soldier Field stadium and Lake Michigan?' This is the Sky Ride (40? a head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket" cars) whence the entire layout can be surveyed...
...Last week in San Francisco, Calif, died Col. Charles E. Stanton, U. S. A. retired, the soldier who really said, "Lafayette, we are here" and of whom General Dawes says, "He taught me how to swear...
When the War came Bob had nowhere else to go. He worked so hard as a soldier, did so well that he was finally promoted to major, put in command of a Negro battalion, all venereal cases. Solace in these trying times was Woman No. 7, Bella, lusty wife of a shriveled colonel. Demobilized, Bob went back to San Francisco, married Julia and settled down. Then Bella appeared again, lured him away. But when she took to drink he was disgusted with her. Bella, creature of impulse, shot him in the stomach. The nurse at his deathbed was none other...