Word: sergeanting
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...were shot by Marines as they tried to drink the polluted lake waters. Soldiers shot two grave diggers who refused to go on with their heart-breaking task. Saturday night, as Marines snatched a moment of sleep, a loud fusillade rang out. A U. S. lieutenant and a Guardia sergeant. both nerve-frazzled beyond self-control, had gone at each other with pistol and submachine gun. The lieutenant was killed...
...more of the world. He decided when he was eleven to enlist in the Marines. When he did, he was sent to Haiti. He missed the War because of a compound fracture of the arm, but had plenty of fighting against Haitian bandits, rose to be a Marine sergeant with rank of lieutenant in the native gendarmerie. A crack shot, he personally potted many a Caco (bandit), but in off hours he made friends with the peaceful natives, did many queer, unsoldierly things, such as acting as emergency midwife and going to voodoo meetings. Several times he visited the island...
...three sons, Artist Bancel, Architect Christopher Grant, Retired Banker Oliver Hazard Perry, showed that they had drunk deep of Father John's medicine. Largest exhibits were the enormous cartoons for the mosaic tympanum of Washington's Trinity College Chapel by Son Bancel and Grandson Thomas Sergeant...
Death, as to many a young soldier, came to Henri Gaudier in 1915, when he was 23. He was good at fighting and had risen to be a sergeant. Far from being a professional soldier, he was an artist, a radical who had left France to escape his military service. But he was a whole-hogger: when he did anything he did it like St. Michael chasing Lucifer from heaven...
...away from the memory of what his wife and his best friend had done to him. He sailed down the Ohio in 1800 and settled in the Middle West. Jonathan Gentry III, his grandson, went to war in 1861 with the 19th Illinois, was wounded, got to be a sergeant, saw his beloved brother killed. After the war he went back to the Gentry farm. Jonathan V, a farmer like his forbears, married a beautiful wife, but she was barren. When his lawyer brother came to visit, she fell in love; Jonathan would not see. When his brother came again...