Word: colonels
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...APRIL 27, 1891, Colonel Charles Colcock Jones Jr. addressed the Confederate Survivors' Association, over which he presided, at its thirteenth annual meeting in Augusta, Georgia. Colonel Jones suggested to the assemblage--an aging, decimated group, decked out in faded gray uniforms--that the sons of Confederate survivors be admitted into the Association, so that it could live on after its current members' imminent deaths. "They are the legitimate transmitters of the aims, doctrines and principles which we held dearer than life," he said; they would glorify the memory of Confederates "who imperiled all in the defense of home...
Shortly thereafter Colonel Jones died, and his Association merged with the larger and more prosperous United Confederate Veterans organization, which in fact preached reconciliation and moving ahead. But if reconciliation prevailed, there must have been some people--the sons of the survivors, the ones Jones talked about--who felt it was somehow wrong, who felt tied to a cause that was dead and that they only dimly understood and that seemed better off over with. It must have stood like a shadow over their lives...
This may not be so much Fussell's fault as the social conditions of the times, the strict division between the officers and the Other Ranks, (who did all the fighting), and the officers' godlike clutch on "culture." A colonel, for instance, read a review of Edmund Blunden's poetry in the Times Literary Supplement, and he called Blunden back from the trenches to do light duty at batallion headquarters. But sometimes Fussell gets caught up in that class-determined culture, as when he describes Blunden's "very worst moment" (Fussell's words), an explosion that happened close...
...hinder the icy logic of their untanglings. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a rich American and an English mother. Although gifted with a good singing voice, she abandoned a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married a British airman, Colonel Archibald Christie, and plunged into the war effort. Between volunteer nursing and practicing pharmacy, she wrote her first detective story on a dare from her sister. The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the 5-ft. 4-in. dandy and retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot. His egoism, eccentricities...
...coincided with another first in the author's otherwise scandal-free life. For two weeks in December 1926, Agatha Christie, 36, was officially a missing person. A frenzied nationwide search led to a Yorkshire hotel, where she was found registered as Tessa Neele, the name of the woman Colonel Christie married after his divorce from Agatha two years later. Doctors said the disappearance was caused by amnesia...