Word: pattonisms
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Imagine how that guy Patton would have squawked if he had been forced by a bunch of clergymen to spend his 18th year in a theological school...
...bitch and the other tired old men around me bitch, but we feel that none of the brass ever hears any of it. And that makes it all seem even more futile than it is. But we know that Mauldin hits home where we can't. Maybe General Patton has only seen two, but every squawk. from him, from Base Section General Wilson, and some of the old-line R.A. Colonels-that makes the next five miles seem like only four! And when General Eisenhower backed up Mauldin against all the stars-well, after that...
General George S. Patton Jr., in Hamilton, Mass., represented the spit-&-polish school with a formal bow over the hand of a little girl who had presented him with a bouquet...
General George S. Patton Jr. fought a spirited rearguard action against criticisms of his unco-soldierly remarks. To Patton's public "Goddamits," Los Angeles' Rev. Don Householder had cried: "Never in our country's history has there been such a profanation. . . . We trust that the General ... will hereafter remember his moral obligation to the youth of America." After the General spoke of the next war before a Sunday School class in San Gabriel, Calif., Stars & Stripes howled: "Please, General . . . just sort of hold your tongue at least until after that San Francisco conference." The General finally grumbled...
...vigor to the familiar story of the eager, humane A.M.G. Major Joppolo, who introduced democracy to Fascist-ridden Adano, and to arrogant, bellicose General Marvin, who sent him packing for defying the General's inhumane orders. But Marvin, who appears only once, looking not unlike General George Patton, is handled with such kid-gloved tenderness that he never becomes a real, hateful antagonist. In consequence, Joppolo's zeal for spreading democracy becomes a worthy but not over-exciting crusade that lacks the dramatic conflict which would have made it exciting...