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...Rhone Valley 1,000 members of the Foreign Legion performed the most reckless "Beau Geste" of all at the fortresses of Joux and L'Ecluse. These strongholds, cut into shoulders of the Jura Mountains above Bellegarde near the Swiss frontier, dominate a series of narrow gorges where the Rhone boils under sheer rock cliffs. The Legionnaires' commander telephoned to the nearest German general, at Pontarlier: "Come and get us." The Germans came. They captured Bellegarde. When they stormed up to the forts, the Legionnaires threw them back, threw them out of the town. As fast as the Germans...
...hawk-nosed, "gimlet-eyed" stormy petrel of the U. S. Marine Corps; of an abdominal ailment; in Philadelphia. Oft-decorated, multi-nicknamed General Butler, at 37 the youngest Marine officer ever to win the rank of brigadier general, fought in 14 battles and skirmishes, earned a legendary reputation for reckless bravery. His barrackroom language got him into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled War Is a Racket, advocated complete U. S. isolation coupled...
...John raced for the sea at Corufia. His Spanish allies failed him. French cavalry overtook him and, when his transports were two days late, so did Soult (with 20,000 men and 40 cannon to Sir John's 15,000 men, nine cannon). A cannon ball got brave, reckless Sir John, but not before he had repulsed the French, embarked most of his men safely...
...dull--often interminable--in pace and direction, it tells the story of a sweet young thing (Ginger Rogers) caught in the sordid atmosphere created by a prostitute-mother, a constantly drunken father, and an incredibly cruel grandmother. Falling in love with Joel McCrea because he nearly kills her by reckless driving, she conceals her true identity, has the usual misunderstandings, and emerges happy ever after...
...tankers British Triumph and Gretafield, both off Britain's northeast coast, and the refrigerator ship Sultan Star in the Bay of Biscay, fetching home 6,000 tons of Argentine beef. For Great Britain, however, these sinkings had grim recompense: the two U-boats responsible were soon sunk, arguing reckless desperation by Nazi commanders in their effort to counter-blockade Britain, or greenness in a new class of submarine personnel, or increased expertness by Britain's defenders. Before the week was out Germany claimed a total of 122,000 tons, Allied and neutral, torpedoed or mined in the last...