Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel ring above his heart and yanked it. In a split second the silk 'chute whipped out of its pack in the propeller blast, jerked Private Osborne from his perch-and fouled itself securely on the plane's tail surfaces. Twenty feet below the unhappy soldier dangled, swinging out behind the speeding plane like the weighted tail of a kite, while the cursing pilot struggled to stabilize the ship. At length the officer signalled to Osborne to cut himself loose and descend by the emergency 'chute strapped upon his chest. But Private Osborne had no knife. Then...
...Town of Paris." Quipped irrepressible Mayor Baker: "If Paris is just a town, I want to see one of your cities." Next morning the mayors, grumbling among themselves at the public attention Mayor Baker was getting, assembled at the Arc de Triomphe to put a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb. France was startled when Mayor Baker, violating the tradition of silence at this place, made a long-winded goodwill speech. The grumblings of the other mayors grew louder as the visitors trooped to the Hotel de Ville for luncheon. Mayor Baker was accused of "hogging the show...
made big black headlines in the news last week. One was the size of the Treasury deficit. The other was the amount of soldier Bonus loans. Though their connection was indirect, they went over the top into ten figures within a few hours of each other...
...marched a tall, tough, wiry man who has travelled the hard road from private soldier to Shah of Persia (TIME, July 22, 1929). He does not propose to be another Amanullah of Afghanistan, to be driven out for being "too modern," "too Christian" (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929). He is not a Christian. With relentless military stride His Moslem Majesty made for the Moslem priest...
...married, too young, it was the wrong man: a gambler, a roué, diseased. To her family Nasa put up a falsetto front, but when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared war on Germany, she went to Manhattan, amused herself with many a departing soldier, gob and leatherneck. She further amused herself by sending her ex-husband a memento of each occasion. When her mother began to die, Nasa went home. As you leave her she has not taken on anybody new, but there is someone in the offing...