Word: sergeanting
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...Department of Education subsidiary to the executive can foist compulsory military training on the colleges of the country is difficult to see. Without legislative action, college men cannot be required to match to the command of a top sergeant. Indeed since his courageous defence of the non-militaristic City College students, Dr. Otis seems to be obsessed with what the learned Viennese might call a military complex...
...Seward, Aldrich and Allison, Lodge, LaFollette, and Penrose, have bequeathed this spirit of independence. It is as permanent as the snuff-boxes on the wall, of which Mr. Lowry writes, "Probably no Senator has taken snuff since Millard Fillmore's day, but it is the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep those two boxes freshly filed...
President Hindenburg, monarchist head of a Republic, has ended an embarrassing situation by the methods of a drill sergeant. For six weeks, Dr. Luther struggled with wayward minorities which refused to agree on a cabinet. Angered by the ceaseless argument, the President of Germany spoke in the tones of Field Marshal von Hindenburg. Within a few hours the four parties of moderate opinions had decided on the members of the government...
...belonged to Ludendorff. . . . In every heart, on every tongue, there was but one name, Hindenburg. . . . Every maid in the most distant forester's lodge knew that head, which the people call 'a majestic brow of thunder,' and the Kaiser, in his jealous rage, termed 'a sergeant...
Seeing the futility of further argument, the squad abandoned the Four Marx Brothers, and sought justice at the Police Station. The sergeant in charge said he could take no action and advised filing a complaint with the Mayor...