Word: camped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second and last acts are considerably better. The camp at Yaphank, Long Island is amusingly portrayed and the usual soldier cracks go off with unexpected success. The scenes "over there" are short, and after being captured in a shell hole, our hero ends up in a German dugout. He is just about to be executed when the Armistice is announced...
...Hallowe'en, 1919. It was in the mountainous Capois region of Haiti. Charlemagne Peralte was the name of a blackamoor chief who was leading 700 rowdy followers to sack Grande Riviere. Hanneken, then a sergeant, took a force of 21 men through the witching night. They rushed the camp, killed Charlemagne and nine of his ruffians, escaped to cover. The feat broke the backbone of Haitian banditry. Hanneken got the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...colored photography, while too artificial for facial expressions is used to fine advantage in depicting the Indian camp scenes amid the Western mountains...
Some stayed to mutter about a Booth promise broken. From the Booth camp had come word the previous day that no legal action would be taken. Some went away with the feeling of having been tricked into impotency. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went into the adjoining room, lay down, and, in the torture of a sudden attack of acute indigestion, died...
There was for instance that phrase about being unable any longer to view this earth as "a training camp preparatory for life in the new Jerusalem." For six years he had been trying it out on the girls in his sociology classes at Smith College. When they had heard it once or twice, they never forgot...