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...fields, the winds and weathers of Bessarabia when he was born, 47 years ago, in the village of Furmanka. He was 20, long out of the village school and hardened to the farm, when the last Tsar's armies drafted him in 1915. He was a hardening young trooper in the cavalry when he went over with his regiment to the Red Revolution...
...sunny days, Russian shells and bullets from the eastern bank and bombs from the sky raised bright geysers around the bodies of the dead. On a cloudy day, when the Stormoviks flew low at the pontoon bridges and rubber boats of the invaders, many a German trooper's last sight in life was the dappled carpet of rain on the river. Along the western bank, where bombs and shells clawed great gaps in the lines of trucks and tanks, Germans died by thousands, and hospital trains bore many more thousands to the rear...
Keystone Kops. In Shreveport, La., officers of the law finally got straightened out after a complicated chase. Two patrolmen in a private car chased a speeder; a State trooper in a private car chased the patrolmen; two more patrolmen chased the State trooper. The leader of the parade was fined...
...them were luncheons." Occasionally when she was in Washington she ran over to Rockefeller's office, Anna Rosenberg, who (according to Vogue) can be "soft and feminine and use her great, soft, dark eyes," and can still be "man-to-man" and "swear like a trooper," had another point to make. When she had accepted the Social Security appointment it was on condition that she be allowed to continue her work as a public-relations consultant...
...Irish and the predominantly Midwestern U.S. troops were somewhat strained. Illogical to the Irish mind was the troops' complaining of the lack of supplies while they absorb all the surpluses in sight, especially beer. Stopped by a small-town constable for passing a red light, a U.S. trooper rudely exclaimed: "I've never seen traffic lights in a cemetery before." Another, asked his opinion of Irish girls, glumly replied: "At home, we bury our dead." The Irish have a tendency to resent such-remarks. When a U.S. technician in a bar grumbled audibly about "having to come over...