Word: lancer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LANCER-Richard Bole-slavski-Babbs-Merrill...
After the Tsar's abdication the Lancers joined up with Kerensky, fought with him until Communist propaganda brought the Russian troops to mutiny. The White officials made long speeches about patriotism and honor. The Red propagandists said three words: "Peace, Bread and Land." "They knew the people. . . . They whispered three words, then waited three months, then acted." Outlawed, the Lancers tried to win their way back to Poland, hid in the forests, finally had to desert their beloved horses and scatter. Boleslavski took shelter with a mad woman who thought he was her dead husband returned from...
REVIEWING "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is a hard lot. The reviewer, goaded by an unreasoning desire for hyperbole, is consciously bound by a definitive knowledge of the dullness of critical prose when compared with the brilliant nervousness of Yeats-Brown...
...over a period of years. Put in that way, nothing could seem more tedious and dull. Yet, the casual reader who has scrupously avoided, perhaps through laziness, the countless "Mother Indias" and now watches the columns of the daily press with some dismay, can be assured that the "Bengal Lancer" has come closer to India than any of his predecessors. Lowell Thomas, no mean adventurer himself, said: "I have read several hundred books on India and this surpasses them...
...beaten-path of the senses that Kim and Gunga Din pale into insignificance. Strange stories have come out of the East for years; the cobra-enchanter, the sacred animals and the mystical rites along the Ganges, the horrible parade of the Juggernaut in the Temple Square. The Bengal Lancer wondered about these. And wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru, a holy man, studied breathing exercises and renunciation of the body, learned new definitions of purity and love. He heard the guru say that the worst enemy...