Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospect. But "Winnie" Churchill is a fairly extraordinary personality in anybody's government. A Boer warrior, a British officer who was a newspaper correspondent in Cuba just before the Spanish-American War, an outstanding member of Herbert Asquith's War Cabinet until he organized the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill has remained the brightest, most mercurial and (sometimes) most effective member of Parliament...
...Campaign. With this in mind, the British press plugged hard last week for Mr. Churchill's inclusion in the Cabinet. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, demanding the "best talent available" for a newly constructed Cabinet, wrote: "The plain fact is that when people speak of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, they are thinking first and foremost of the inclusion of Churchill, and it is quite certain that no step would more profoundly impress the Axis powers with the conviction that this country means business...
Interviewed privately, Mr. Howe declared he was dead serious. He explained away a similar announcement last January by saying that that had simply been a feeler. His strongest campaign card, said he, would be his pledge to write a daily column "on what goes on in Washington so it can be understood out in this part of Texas...
Unfortunately for the Italians, their best-known World War novel is Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. These studiously underwritten reminiscences of an Italian ex-army officer (now in exile) show that not every Italian campaign had its Caporetto. Sardinian Brigade does not discredit the bravery of Italian fighters; it only shows that Italian fighting and opera bouffe were often closely related...
Emilio Lussu (Road to Exile) describes a year's Alpine campaign (1916-17). He describes two mutinies, devotes little space to actual fighting, writes mainly of personalities, is most effective on the salty subject of his fellow officers. General Piccolomini, lecturing to his staff on Coordination of Intellects, proved by irrefutable logic that a semicircular excavation on a nearby mound was a machine-gun emplacement. An adjutant major ventured to suggest that the general was wrong. "Oh. What is it, then?" sneered the general. "It's a latrine...