Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photography of the firing lines in France is as good as in any recent war film. The use of clever firework devices has given the impression of much explosion and shrapnel, though it may be that too few men fall by the wayside to satisfy a good martial appetite. The lighting of particular scenes, especially those in Charmaine's home, is novel and effective in its naturalness...
...Odessa and Cherson in the Ukraine, famine conditions became so aggravated last week that martial law was proclaimed and troops were ordered out to protect the state grain elevators from mobs of hungry workers...
...Landau* a French officer was tried by a French Court Martial last week for killing a German citizen and wounding two others last September at Germersheim (TIME, Oct. 11) in the occupied Rhineland. The Court acquitted the accused, Lieutenant Rouzier, of manslaughter on the grounds that he had fired in self-defense when attacked by the Germans with canes. Said the Lieutenant with cold formality in speaking of the man he killed: "If I have committed reprehensible acts I regret them. I likewise regret if they have reflected on my country, my colonel and my regiment." The two Germans wounded...
...dirty pink coat sleeves, grimaced, leaped in air. From the wings came the first violinist, in female apparel, to reproduce the temperamental repining of a neurotic soloist. Then the bandsmen, some with red wigs, some with green beards, followed the leader (who wore full Indian war feathers) in a martial composition drawn from 17 tabulated sources...
...program will be almost the same as the one given at Salem on November 26, opening with the martial strains of the "Second Regiment March of Connecticut", rendered by the Banjo Club, The Mandolin Club offers among other numbers Delibes' "Intermezzo from Naila" and "The Song of the Volga Boatmen." The Vocal Club will render the famous "Drinking Song" from the "Student Prince", "In an Old-Fashioned Town", and a medley of songs of the gay nineties...