Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Besides Soprano Pons and a competent though none too handsome tenor, French-Canadian Raoul Jobin, The Daughter of the Regiment boasts, in the role of Sergeant Sulpice who foster-fathers Marie, a notable new singer, Italian Basso Buffo Salvatore Baccaloni. The Met's production ends with everyone singing La Marseillaise*-an idea contributed by Mme. Pons's band-leading husband, Andre ("Kosty") Kostelanetz...
...City Council of Burlington, N. J. complained that Pennsylvania Railroad trains were breaking the city speed limit of 5 m.p.h. A police sergeant clocked them as high as 15 or 20 m.p.h...
...first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
...SERGEANT LAMB'S AMERICA-Robert Graves-Random House...
...young Marine) is first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon...