Word: infantrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wheel chair while his erstwhile love cuddled another boy. In the meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description of such books as All Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey's End, Playwright O'Casey reveals a group of infantrymen encamped in a ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed...
...Fifty infantrymen with machine guns were despatched from Egypt by airplane. The British War Office ordered the tracks between Cairo and Alexandria cleared of traffic to facilitate troop movements...
...Coolidge decided she would need a staff of 14 house servants. Stationed near will be ten detectives and 60 infantrymen from Fort Snelling...
...certain that there are more unknown infantrymen with their feet on the laboratory firesteps of medical science than in any other field of endeavor in the world. Not only an outbreak approaches an epidemic does the public wonder how many nascent Black Plagues have been stamped out in a test tube...
Sharp Claws. The British War Office announced that it would have 20,000 British troops in China by the end of February. Ten thousand picked infantrymen, including a battalion of the crack Coldstream Guards, embarked at London last week for China, and 450 Punjabis from British India were rushed from Hongkong to Shanghai...