Word: waterloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slogan, 'Old Uns First.' Why not? We've had a good inning. The young 'uns haven't had any. And any old man can learn to work an airplane after awhile. . . . We haven't paid for the Crimean War yet, or for Waterloo yet, and we never will. But did any one say they settled anything? . . . Wars have always left behind the seeds of future wars...
...doughboy," the "poilu" and the "Tommy'' fought side by side against "Jerry" (also known as "the Boche" and "the Hun"). Of all these warriors only "Tommy" had a last name. Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times, has been serving His or Her Britannic Majesty since post-Waterloo clays. Until the late great Rudyard Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really was underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear fellow nor a brute, but a nice mixture...
...Frequent Waterloo...
...previous years, Harvard has found the hilly course at Nassau a frequent Waterloo, as the flat lay-out along the Charles had given the Mikkolamen no preparation for the gruelling hill-and-dale affair of the Tigermen. This year, however, Coach Jaakko had his men working out on the Brookline Country Club roughs and fairways, building up a stamina which proved the winning factor for the race...
...Duke of Wellington, in the course of shooting grouse in Scotland, shot the fundament of a female Scottish peasant full of birdshot, His Grace testily made no apology, and a member of his entourage observed: "The good woman should have been honored by any contact with the Victor of Waterloo...