Word: sergeanting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Staff Sergeant, U. S. Marine Corps...
...calibre championship (with service rifle at all distances and all positions) attracts the largest entry. In a field of 1,705, shooting from 200 to 1,000 yards (prone, kneeling, standing), Sergeant William J. Coffman (U. S. Infantry) of Camp Ord, Calif, shot the sharpest: 289 out of a possible...
...McWilliams gave Harry Dalton a new aim in life. Harry's West Pointer father, a former sergeant at arms of the New York State Senate, and as husky as his son, joined him in the cause. For $50 they bought a fruit & vegetable truck, festooned it with flags, mounted a pair of spotlights, christened it Old Ironsides and moved in on McWilliamsland. Said Harry: "I decided to find out if Yorkville was a part of the U. S." If McWilliams held three street-corner meetings a week, the Daltons held five. Harry talked about Americanism, and what it meant...
...first time in its life the Post-Dispatch bought space in two eastern newspapers, the Washington Star and the New York Times, reprinted its editorial in territory the Post-Dispatch does not reach. So incensed was one 62-year-old citizen of St. Louis, Lawrence Miller, a onetime sergeant in the A. E. F. with two World War I citations for bravery, that he threw bricks through three Post-Dispatch windows, broke $500 worth of plate glass. Said he: "I broke the windows to get even...
Reporter Phillips overtook the column, cried to the last man: "Sergeant, that man is a German! He has no registration card." Said the sergeant: "You'll have to tell one of the officers." Phillips hurried on, caught up with a lieutenant. Said the lieutenant: "You follow him-we'll catch up with you after the parade." Finally, Phillips spoke to a policeman watching the parade. They jumped into a car and drove after the man. He clicked his heels as they overtook him, saluted, was pinched. He turned out to be Rons Kempe, another escaped Nazi, a veteran...