Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urgency. Many a draftee, many a Guardsman called to service on the premise that the U.S. needed an Army in a world filled with aggression has now no sense of imminent national danger. (At a Mississippi camp last week uniformed men booed newsreel shots of Franklin Roosevelt and General George Marshall, cheered a thumbnail speech by Isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson...
Married. Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, 20, sixth and youngest of the beauteous daughters of ex-Appeaser Lord Redesdale; and Lord Andrew Cavendish, 20, Coldstream Guardsman, second son of the Duke of Devonshire; in London. Sister Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, appearing publicly for the first time since she returned last year from a visit to Germany with mysterious bullet wounds in her neck (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940), attended-by a side door...
...hand defense, how to use smoke bombs and hand grenades, and how to sabotage behind the enemy's lines. One cute little trick to decapitate an enemy was learned by Greene while he was visiting Asterloo, Cheese cutters in England are sharp wires with handles at each end. The Guardsman holds both handles in his right hand, slips the wire loop over a German's head from behind, holds his left hand against the enemy's head, and pulls. The wire passes through a man's neck with the same fluid case as through cheese...
...stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong man was Don Emmanuel Godoy, a half-educated, country-born ex-guardsman, who had become Prime Minister through his prowess as Queen Maria Luisa's lover...
...National Guardsman John Shea, 23, who had never been to a dentist in his life and showed it, was rejected by Army physicians in New York City. Dogged John Shea hotfooted it to a dentist's office, held his mouth open for ten and a half hours while the dentist drilled and filled. Out came three teeth; in went two bridges, four fillings, five crowns. Next day jaw-sore Patient Shea smiled a false-toothy smile for Army physicians, jumped happily on the train that took his outfit to camp...