Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promotion was rapid. First he taught at Grenoble, then at Marseille, then at Lyon, where his master Herriot was also mayor. Then Daladier got a promotion to the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. At that moment the World War broke out. He entered the Army as a sergeant, fought (Arras, Champagne, Verdun, Flanders), became an infantry captain, earned a Legion of Honor medal, the Croix de Guerre, three citations for bravery. In the autumn of 1919 he went back to take his job at the Lycée Condorcet. Again it eluded him. He stayed just two weeks before...
...retired General Smedley D. ("Gimlet Eye") Butler of the U. S. Marines, who said at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "After Italy and Germany get the swamps and deserts they're after, they'll all sit down and talk it over." Still fewer were as cheerfully bellicose as Sergeant Alvin C. York, No. 1 U. S. hero of the last war, who said at Pall Mall. Tenn...
...Club advertised for a "large alley cat, exceptionally powerful, and able to cope with giant sewer rats." Questioned by the Humane Society, which asked him if he was planning to put on a cat-rat fight, Mr. Donohoe explained: "It's for the jail." A cat named Sergeant...
...came to do my duty," he informed General Rodríguez. Fast-talking Antonio Rodríguez explained that he had taken over the chief executive's job because Benavides had sailed for Europe. "That is untrue," replied the Sergeant Major. Minister Rodríguez, according to the official version of the story, lunged for the officer's gun. It cracked twice and Rodríguez fell dead...
Famed oldtime Pitcher "Cy" Young, now Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, in Ohio's Senate, was annoyed to find himself listed on baseball's "Scroll of Fame" as Denton Tecumseh Young. His real middle name: True...