Word: pharmacists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authored the tough, lusty What Price Glory?, the best American play about World War I. The Streets Are Guarded, a play about World War II, tells a fuzzy story about a heroic marine who pulls off a perilous sortie against the Japs. With a fever-ridden fanatically religious pharmacist's mate acting as Greek chorus, it seems throughout to symbolize a modern miracle. But what it says at the end is that such "miracles" are the everyday stuff of soldiering...
Just because last week-end was the first liberty that we've had in months was no reason for the police to make us call in every five minutes. Geo, we read the papers, too. By the way, have you had a Cowle Cocktail. For particulars see the pharmacist's mate...
...pharmacist's mate, first class, took Spanish, which he expects to be useful with his Mexican customers when he resumes his job as manager of a drugstore in Arizona...
...corpsmen dropped. He had been shot between the eyes. The other corpsman, Chief Pharmacist's Mate Reeder Parker of Lexington, Ala., told the rest of the story to New York Timesman George Home: The wounded marine . . . was heart broken: "I'm sorry he got it trying to get me back. It's no use taking me because I'm dying anyhow." The wounded man and the young corps man could go no farther without help. Parker sat down beside the marine, whose life was ebbing. The marine prayed for the man who had died...
Most of the prisoners at McClellan are Bavarians, blond, stocky and young. Except for four doctors, a dentist and a tall, hatchet-faced pharmacist, there are no officers among them. Dressed in faded blue denim P.W. uniforms or, occasionally, the patched-up uniforms which they had on when they were captured, they looked arrogant, meaty, well...