Word: pullerisms
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...killing and the dying, and a sneering hatred for the staff officer who did the sitting and the meddling. He thrived on combat until he became a legend to his troops-the toughest fighting man in the whole United States Marines. His name was Lewis Burwell ("Chesty") Puller, and when he was retired in 1955 as a lieutenant general, he was the most decorated man in Marine Corps history...
...account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended before he could kill any Germans. But Puller was soon...
Retired Taffy Puller. Welch's wild assaults on reason, says the Review, menace the solidarity of the entire conservative movement. "He persists in distorting reality ... By the extravagance of his remarks, he repels rather than attracts a great following . . . Can one endorse the efforts of a man who, in one's judgment, goes about bearing false witness?" The Review says no: "Our opinion is that Robert Welch is damaging the cause of anti-Communism...
Buckley actually approves of the John Birch Society ("I hope it thrives"), but has been more and more bothered by its founder's antics. Last April Buckley said in print that there were "grave differences" between his own conservative creed and that of retired Taffy-Puller Welch. Besides, last week's Review editorial was bound to brew another of the ideological storms on which Buckley and the Review seem to thrive...
Died. Guy Goldthorp Butler, 74, an Iowa politician who was known as "the shirtsleeve senator" of the state's upper house, where coat and tie is the rule, once a practicing dentist whose five-year career as tooth puller to the royal household of King Rama VI of Siam ended in 1921 when an auto accident injured his arm; of a heart attack; in Des Moines...