Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BUGLES BLOW NO MORE— Clifford Dowdey—Little, Brown...
...happier embodiment in the octopus sequence. This time ''the man of steel" rescues his buddy, a diver, bogged down by a devilfish, his airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness is the result of a skull slash by a deep-sea monster, but makes no effort to analyze why the captain swims so awkwardly or why "a man of steel" should keep himself so plump. Killers...
...back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union was worth four years of blood and ruin. Both these points of view are implicit in Bugles Blow No More, which last week added one to the growing number of historical romances about the Civil...
Like Gone With The Wind and Boy in Blue, Bugles Blow No More strings its beads of action on the thin thread of a love story. The scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched...
...willing to go on. Mildred could hardly recognize as her fire-eating lover the tattered scarecrow that came limping into smoke-blackened, ruined Richmond after Lee's surrender. Broken, beaten, he could still wish that Lee had ordered them to fight on. Even now that the bugles would blow no more, he could think of nothing but the war that had been his life; his proudest memory would always be that as the Old Man rode slowly by for the last time, he had reached out and touched his stirrup...