Word: balaclava
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this fable is energetically enacted, Four Feathers is most memorable for its desert and battle scenes, dyed in the renowned Korda Technicolor. John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting his version of the battle of Balaclava with fruit and cutlery at the dinner table...
Most thrilling record: Kenneth Landfrey, a trumpeter for the Light Brigade, sounding again in 1890 the tragic charge at Balaclava...
Most moving: The words of Florence Nightingale at 70, shrill, wavering, full of emotion: "When I am no longer even a memory-just a name-I hope my voice brings to history the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore...
...been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The front engine of a five-car, two-engine train on the Jamaica Central Railway, packed with Kingston citizens going to the country for the Liberation Day weekend, left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four of the five coaches up on each other in a splintered, twisted mass like a smashed accordion. The coaches lay crumpled for hours in a river bed till cranes could be got into the mountains. Most...
TRUMPETER, SOUND! - D. L. Murray - Knopf ($2.50). Fiction up-to-date: Victorian London, an innocent actress, a dashing hussar. Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Shake well and add a pinch of salt...