Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Talbot G. ("Jimmy") Bowen is a Massachusetts-born ex-doughboy who has knocked around considerably in his 43 years. Before he landed his present job, representing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures in Montevideo, he used to manage the American Club in Buenos Aires. Visitors from the States knew expansive, bouncy Jimmy well. Last Sunday the whole world got acquainted with Jimmy Bowen's voice...
...Roaring Twenties" is a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade and down into the gloom and common sense of the thirties. The show belongs to Jimmy Cagney, who is really in his medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney...
...Veterans of the ist Division (first U. S. troops to go overseas in World War I) met in Los Angeles, took the stump for neutrality. Said one ex-doughboy: "All that we lost in France in 1917 and 1918 was the flower of our manhood and our money . . . it's too late to go back and look for them...
Ubiquitous in U. S. parks and public buildings is the conventional War memorial doughboy with trench helmet and bayonet, charging eternally in bronze or marble. Last week an arrestingly different conception for a U. S. War memorial was unveiled at St. Paul, Minn. Startled citizens and American Legionaries got their first look at a huge, brooding Indian, towering in 55 tons of cream-white Mexican onyx 36 feet above a slowly rotating pedestal in the black marble concourse of St. Paul's new City Hall. One great hand held the Pipe of Peace. The other was raised...
...last months of the Great War the ''doughboy," the "poilu" and the "Tommy'' fought side by side against "Jerry" (also known as "the Boche" and "the Hun"). Of all these warriors only "Tommy" had a last name. Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times, has been serving His or Her Britannic Majesty since post-Waterloo clays. Until the late great Rudyard Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really was underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear...