Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graves. To the west, the British and Canadians were on traditional ground. There was only a skirmish near the graves of Canadians who had stormed the beach at Dieppe in August 1942. British tanks clanked over the Somme where in September, 28 years before, the first tank had straddled a...
Some Americans will unquestionably get drunk. Some, like Soldier-Poet Robert Graves at the end of World War I, may go walking by themselves, "cursing and sobbing and thinking of the dead." For those who observe the surrenders of Germany and Japan by going to church, the Federal Council of...
Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, literary journeyman, World War I captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers,* wrote a letter to the London Times in which he attacked the BBC for a July 4 program, The Spirit of 1776, which gave the "American version of the War for Independence." Sample: a...
† Graves was right: the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Breeds Hill, next to the original Bunker-both are now called Bunker. The Bunker Hill monument is atop what was Breed's Hill.
Broadway has been having a busy June but a bad one. The "silly season" has sprouted comedies that lack even a silly seasoning of wit, farces more like new forms of torture, a beer-&-pretzel extravaganza at which the vile acoustics became a virtue. Most of these walking corpses already...