Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday had come to St. Louis from West Frankfort, Ill., famed gang battlefield, of whose alleged viciousness he said this to St. Louis citizens: "There's just as good folks up there as ever lived . . . a lot of St. Louis crooks went down there and hid behind machine guns. . . ." On leaving St. Louis, Evangelist Sunday will proceed to Iola, Kan., for six weeks of pouncing, bouncing, trouncing preaching; then he will go to Greenville...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...
...revolutionist he sent to prison so long ago, gives him a costume like the one he wore when he was the cousin of a living Tsar. Then the director sends the sad actor, once more a gaudy captain, into a mock battle. Leading Hollywood soldiers across a fabricated battlefield, the Russian nobleman forgets pretense. After relieving for a moment a similar scene in his remembrance, General Dolgorucki dies, not in pretense but in actuality, on his lips the ironic question of a disabled college athlete...
...next episode is something very different. In Raona, "that ancient Mediterranean town on a cliff ledge half way to the sky," Claire Ambler met an invalid whose gallantries on a battlefield more severe than that of love permitted him to anticipate only one bravery more. Charles Orbison, waiting, in the warm sun, for death to reward him for the wounds he had suffered in the War, saw Claire Ambler and heard her sing once, beautifully and out of a rare simplicity. Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries...
...story is that of a young Austrian who is roused from his wedding breakfast by the call to arms. His bride waits for him, trying to find money with which to buy food for herself and her baby, her mind always a battlefield of fears and sorrows. At last the young lieutenant who is supposed to have been killed, reappears for a conclusion that weakens, somewhat, the effect of the picture's sound and peaceful propaganda...