Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally, he has found that the wage scale for his own countrymen is lower than the scale for aliens. Having absorbed nationalistic ideas in Italy, where his brother, onetime President, sent him as Minister, he is determined to enforce them in Panama...
Samuel T. Peace, one of Jeb Stuart's cavalry men, was the oldest of six brothers in the Civil War. His next brother, A. D. Peace, was shot in the shoulder and head. His next brother, A. S. Peace, was shot through the stomach. His next brother, Ira J. Peace, was killed at Gettysburg. His next brother, George K. Peace, had his leg shot off. His next brother, J. Wesley Peace, had his little toe shot off. All in war. Do you blame the Peaces for moving out of Peaceburg when the Army moved...
...greater self-government of its various units, releasing the native genius of its different people, and yet unified under the structure of English constitutional law. He saw his years of work for a peaceful, democratic Empire set back by the impact of World War I, in which his only brother was killed. As Lloyd George's secretary during the war, he had worked for the League of Nations, saw hope end in the Treaty of Versailles...
...subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop were also reported on the highroad toward Rome, to speak to their little brother of the Axis...
...When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...