Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think if people in this country knew some of the terrible things that happened in the last war they wouldn't allow another one. We two volunteered. We were not drafted. We honestly believed that it was a just and right war. And now when we read the papers and see the rearming in Europe and right here that's going on it makes us think that all the things we went through were for nothing...
Commander: I'll read it. Are you ready...
...underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear fellow nor a brute, but a nice mixture of both. The wildest brawls and ruddiest language of Kipling's soldiers can be read unblushingly in a drawing-room. Private Richards' report, though peaceably expressed, is truer to bachelor life. Old Soldier Sahib has an honest animal smell, as exciting to plain citizens as a whiff from a lion's cage...
THOSE who have read "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" will appreciate the usefulness of this concise volume recounting the historical events in which Colonel Lawrence played a part. The confusion of philosophy and confusion which is present in that monumental autobiography in many places completely obscures the continuity of the narrative. It is Edmond's purpose to outline the course of action simply...
...that Library. The reason given was that this work was not sociology. It is hard to agree with this view of a book which was characterized in the "Saturday Review of Literature" by Harold Laski as follows: "No one is entitled to speak of Russia who has not read this book. It marks a definite epoch in the understanding of the greatest historical event since the French Revolution." Laski affirms this in spite of his severe criticism of the Webb' treatment of individual freedom in the Soviet Union...