Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the song, Adelita has come to symbolize all the sturdy women of the revolution-such scowling Amazons as Colonel Juanita, who commanded a regiment of Zapata's best cavalry; the handsome, .45-toting blondes of the Café Viena in Guadalajara, who could pick out a tune by firing at piano keys; the thousands of soldaderas who followed their men into battle, gave birth in boxcars, somehow managed also to produce three meals...
...Smith relates. Bodies piled high before their guns. Their ammunition ran out. Then they were overrun, partly because their own 3rd Battalion made no attempt to shift over to help stop the fanatical Japs. The attack was finally halted by Marine artillerymen and a Reserve Army infantry regiment, after U.S. troops had suffered over 1,000 casualties. Smith then yanked the 27th out of the line, never let them do any more fighting in the Marianas...
Rossiter learned to play the pipes while in Oregon about three years ago from Major M. Russell Todd, who taught him Army skirling as it is done in His Majesty's 16th Canadian Scottish Regiment. This training gives Rossiter a different bagpipe technique from his Harvard predecessor Leigh Cross '51, who was an exponent of the non-military style...
...served as an officer in the King's Own Mounted Regiment (which has not had to fight a battle in 134 years). In 1928 he married Estelle Romaine Manville (of Johns-Manville). He was 33, she 24. They moved into Dragongarden, a villa in Stockholm's diplomatic quarter, surrounded by old oaks, vast lawns, and a canal where all the Bernadottes went skating. Together with his two sons, Folke and Bertil (two others died), the Count grew into an enthusiastic Boy Scout, was frequently seen in Scout garb at international Scout encampments...
When Rumania was "liberated" by the Red army, Colonel Ana Pauker returned with her regiment to the country from whose squalor and jails she had risen. She proceeded to return evil for evil-and, in true Communist fashion, evil for good. Because she wanted to play along with his Liberal Party for a while, she left Tata-rescu, who had jailed her, in the Foreign Ministry for two years; but Maniu, who had helped her, she clapped into prison. Said she: "In his old age, Maniu has earned his rest." Maniu is now dying, still behind bars...