Meanings of late unpleasantness in English

Keep thinking of the late unpleasantness, as you have been doing.

I'm to get my first try-out in operating, after the late unpleasantness, on an out-of-town case.

My name's Wingate, Lieutenant Wingate, late of the Army Flying Corps in our late unpleasantness with the Hun.

Captain Morgan spoke of the storm as "the late unpleasantness," and hoped his friends would not desert him again.

The best summary seems to be that Fianna Fáil has recovered sufficiently from the, ah, late unpleasantness to regain its big-party status.

The town is regularly and well built, and during our " late unpleasantness" was the principal rendezvous of the scores of blockade-runners.

Now the rag-chewing has begun over again, and Bob is doing the lordly contempt act just as Jeems did before the late unpleasantness.

Convinced that Black Beauty would no longer dispute his supremacy, Apache at last pronounced for peace and thought no more about the late unpleasantness.

To the four ex-"soreheads" not a word had been said about the late unpleasantness, nor was this quartette any longer in Coventry.

He had been an ensign in the navy during "the late unpleasantness," and had served in the Gulf of Mexico in the blockade fleet.

He had been with Lovell over a year before the two made the discovery that they had been on opposite sides during the " late unpleasantness."

"Perhaps Willy Horse knows more about our late unpleasantnesses than you do, Emma," said Grace.