Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flagellation was the routine official punishment for small offenses and neglect of duties by the privates and non-commissioned officers. The guilty soldier was formally subjected to a medical examination about his heart and lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music...
Tariffs were reported as almost prohibitive by Italian standards: 80? for a private soldier who must be served between noon and 4 p. m.; $1.60 for noncoms whose hours are from 4 p. m. to 8 p. m., and after that $2.40 for war correspondents and Italian officers...
...returned to Rome fortnight ago. Gossip has had General Graziani vexed by Old de Bono's reluctance to send him as many troops as he has asked for. What the dashing General in the South might not listen to from the Qtiadrnmvir, he will presumably, as a professional soldier, listen to with greatest respect from Marshal Badoglio, who was named last week Commander in Chief of all Italy's forces in East Africa and High Commissioner for her colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. Two days after his appointment Marshal Badoglio and his two officer sons, Paolo...
...Yale games this afternoon including a few scattered pairs and singles in the concrete stands, are still on sale, H. A. A. officials announced last night. Tickets will be sold at the H. A. A. office in the Freshman Union from 9 to 11.30 o'clock, and at Soldier's from 12.30 o'clock until game time...
...inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation into a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...