Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Christmas at hand, a picture of the world distribution of U. S. Marines was published last week in the annual report of the No.1 U. S. Marine, Major General Wendell Gushing Neville. In Nicaragua were 1,800, in Haiti 887,* in the Virgin Islands 111, in Guam 572, Philippines 215, Hawaii 395, Shanghai 1,049 Peking 486, not to count the men aboard Navy ships around the world...
...enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense dictated the purchase from Denmark of the Virgin Islands for 25 million dollars in 1917, to give the U. S. military control over the portals of the Caribbean and hence the Panama Canal...
...Navy. To hold this empire the navy maintains for its fighting fleets large stations at Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba under a treaty), at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at Cavite near Manila, small ones at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, at Guam, Panama, Samoa and Olongapo. Policing the Caribbean is the Special Service Squadron under Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. On its beat along the China coast moves the Asiatic fleet of two cruisers, 19 destroyers, auxiliary vessels, gunboats on the Yangtze River...
GLORY BE TO THE HOLY VIRGIN WHO PROTECTED US IN THE THICK FOG. THIS CANDELABRUM IS DEDICATED TO OUR SEAMEN...
...rawboned Middle-western farmer's daughter, a hard worker. She married a mean man. When childbirth killed her he wrote a poem to her memory, saying what a good husband he had been. Emanuela was beautiful, but she was afraid of love. Against vigorous opposition, she remained a virgin. Esther married a poetaster: starvation and cold gave her tuberculosis. Bridget was a hellion of an old charwoman in downtown Manhattan. Hers was a rough tongue and none too savory a reputation, but she had courage...