Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manufacturing plants to which the War Department can go immediately for the 4,000 items on its "shopping list." (The 1918 list was 700,000 articles.) Great cantonments would not be constructed but "full utilization of Federal, State, county and municipal buildings will be made as troop shelters." This program, according to General MacArthur, would give the country "victory, immediate and complete...
...pertinacity of the Lampoon forces cannot but be admired as they troop to combat this afternoon, for extensive research has proved that during the last five games they have mustered ten runs against the 115 which have been amassed by the pressmen. A gentleman who is in hourly communication with the president of the humorous periodical, has intimated that he contemplates disguising his myrmidons in such a way that the score-keeper will be foiled in his frenzied attempt to keep track of the errors committed. It has even been suggested that they report in human guise, since they...
...Royal Party will arrive at the north entrance to Fort Myer military reservation. A troop of cavalry will be waiting for the Royal Party to act as an escort on the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery...
...station master did no such thing. In his canny French mind's eye he saw that if he opened the car, and even if he found the sword, afterwards a whole troop of excitable Poles might hold him responsible for whatever else might happen to be missing. With elaborate politeness he cabled to Madeira his refusal...
Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...