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Few poets' wives are fitted to write about their lately lyric husbands, but some do. Latest rusher-in is Helen Thomas, relict of the late Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917. If you have a sweet tooth for idyllic romance you will chew on this with gusto...
Sherston (Sassoon) served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Flintshires (Royal Welch Fusiliers), came through the Somme unhurt and with a Military Cross to his credit. He was shot through the chest by a sniper at the Battle of Arras. He won the M. C. by losing his temper. When...
Though Retreat does not throw a beam of flattering light on army chaplains, the book has been praised by no less a churchman than gloomy Dean Inge, of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Said he: "One of the best and most original of the new war books...
Reports submitted by other committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs and published in the current issue of the University Alumni Bulletin recommended that a scholarship be established at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, which was John Harvard's almamater, in memory of Lionel de Jersey '15, who was killed in action...
Or suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed...