It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry. The Universal Reciter Various You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. The Story of a Tinder-box Charles Meymott Tidy I want one of these sparks, if I can persuade it to do so, to fall on my tinder.
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War (1950-1953).
Douglas MacArthur. Douglas MacArthur was born in 1880 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was educated at West Point Military Academy and gained a commission into the engineers in 1903. In 1905, MacArthur was sent to work in Tokyo where his father was Americaâs official observer of Japanâs military operations against Russia.