Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disaster's cause. At week's end they had not found it but they had listened to a mass of testimony of which two highlights were Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, head of the Lakehurst base, and Werner Franz, the Hindenburg's twelve-year-old cabin boy...
...Over There"-"Goodbye Broadway, Hello France-"The Rose of no Man's Land"- "K K-K-Katy" - "Keep Your Down, Fritzie Boy"-"Where Do We Go from Here, Boys"-"Over There" Selection, "The Fighting Allies...
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...
...with the description of this young family, a description which almost at once introduces us to each member in terms which characterize them to the very end of the novel. Bunny, the youngest Morison at this time, appeals to us for his quiet sentimentality. The relations between this sensitive boy and his mother are as touching as they are true to life. His older brother Robert, aged thirteen, has had a serious accident which resulted in the amputation of his leg. Because of this handicap, the boy seems in Bunny's eyes to have usurped all the love and devotion...
...epidemic of Spanish Influenza which was ranging in 1918, and Robert Legins to reveal to us his personality which before we were only able to hint at from the references cast his way. He is struggling with the hardships of awkardness and self-consciousness so trying to a boy in the early teens. The author describes his feelings and his trials with the utmost tenderness and sympathy, yet giving us a faithful picture. The tragic scenes which follow on the heels of the opening chapter come to us at first through the mind of Robert and later through that...