Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgust of discriminating undergraduates out on a holiday an array of pitiably unorganized politicians and women's leagues marked time with hoboes and urchins. Boy Scouts marched better than the National Guard; sound effects went on the bum, and, to cap it all, a local merchant shocked Legionnaires by flying his flag upside down...
...BOY IN BLUE-Royce Brier-Appleton-Century...
...second novel never mentions Spain's civil war or the state of Europe. It is the tale of how six men found their way down through society to a Greek sponge-divers' island, went the rest of their downward journey together. Freeth was a South of England boy who had run away from home and wandered in some shady places before he murdered a French prostitute in her Marseille hotel. Skinner was a hard-bitten skipper who had wrecked one too many ships for his crooked employers. Legge was a burned-out writer who had taken to drink...
...years is a trick only artists can perform. Evelyn Scott has had a good try. Last week Newshawk Royce Brier had another. A Pulitzer Prizeman (for his story of the Brooke Hart kidnappers, 1934). he went at his bigger story in first-rate newshawk fashion. 1937 readers of Boy in Blue may not get exactly the same news as 1863 readers of the Cincinnati Gazette but they will get an approximation of the same feelings...
Like all good reporters, Royce Brier went thoroughly over his story's ground. Boy in Blue was three years writing. took Author Brier step by step over the Tennessee battlefields he tells about. And, like Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Royce Brier reports fighting not as a tricky tit-tat-toe of tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause...