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Taking his spoils to Polotovsk, Budenny issued a call which became a watchword in Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" As leader of a guerrilla troop, for a while he fought everybody who came his way. Living in forests, his horsemen emerged at night to fall upon Denikin's men or upon freebooters like themselves. By August 1919, Denikin had conquered the Ukraine and was only 200 miles from Moscow. Trotsky did not even know that Budenny existed, but it was Budenny who stopped Denikin, at Kursk. The Bolshevists quickly recognized him, began to capitalize on his spreading fame. The rumor...
...battle cry, the petitioners an army. London threw open its gates to them, so did Lincoln and Exeter. Wales promised help, and the Scottish nobles spurred south to add the strength of their swords. The country had risen as a man: John found himself with but seven loyal horsemen in his train, facing a nation in arms...
...behind his machine, sets his wheels spinning round with a touch of his finger. Such a fence, apart from the chevaux de frise of bayonets behind it, forms an obstacle which few horses, if any, would face; and the men inside, in perfect security, can pick off the advancing horsemen with deadly effect...
...Himself as handsome as a movie star, he was born in Dublin, had been a New Haven dockworker, graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, protege of famed Sculptor Lee Lawrie, ex-War pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. And he turned out such successes as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mare Nostrum. His name was linked so closely with Sabatini, Ibanez, Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro that it was sometimes uncertain whether he was director, author, actor, or all three. After a ten-year career in Hollywood, Rex Ingram, then only 35, dropped...
Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?), though not a Nazi, is still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...