Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McKean, Brigadier General William B., a marine who shoots down marines. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Last week the Marine Corps reeled under a humiliating attack that purpled faces from Quantico to Korea. Reason for all the commotion: an article in Cavalier, a corpuscular magazine with a large barracksroom circulation, that made the Marines' Hymn and many of the corps' proudest boasts sound like...
The Marines, McKean claims, were a tinhorn elite corps until World War I, when Correspondent Floyd Gibbons immortalized the 4th Marine Brigade in the Battle of Belleau Wood. Actually, Gibbons wrote his flaming story in advance, was wounded by a stray bullet that cost him his left eye, and never...
¶ Marines aboard the sinking Bon Homme Richard did indeed capture the British Serapis in a bloody, muzzle-to-muzzle fight. But all of the 137 enlisted men were Frenchmen, in alien uniforms, vagrants recruited by John Paul Jones on the docks of L'Orient.
¶U.S. marines did fight in the halls of Montezuma- and on the shores of Tripoli, but not as impressively as the Marines' Hymn implies. Eight marines helped 150 Greeks and Arabs capture the fortress city of Tripoli from the Barbary pirates in 1804. In the battle for the...