Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carol's regiment, the 1st Hussars, fired a royal salute to him who was still "M. Caraiman." Legend had it that he spent the rest of the night drinking and gambling with Prince Nicholas and brother officers?this being the sort of conduct expected and approved by Rumanians in the case of an officer, gentleman or King of spirit...
...simple narrative, un-propagandist, unrhetorical. Its author has preferred to remain anonymous. Says "Private 19022": "The events described actually happened; the characters are fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters are a company of an English regiment he calls the Westshires. Hero is Bourne, a gentleman ranker, who has come through the Somme battles with his two chums, Shem and Martlow, without a scratch. Not regular soldiers, they are veterans now, have the veteran's point of view, try only to do as much as they...
Bride of the Regiment (First National). Somehow music and light, gracious playing gave that stilted musical comedy, The Lady in Ermine, a charm as a stage production which it has lost in cinema. Better direction might have made acceptable the earnest efforts of the large and mediocre cast. But Director John Francis Dillon paid little attention to dialog and treated the central situation-a lady who, captured by an invading army, is asked to pay a painful price to save her husband's life-with inexcusable pomposity. Typical shot: the villainous Austrian colonel overcome by wine at a critical...
Having served for a number of years with an Indian cavalry regiment, and having had the privilege of forming truer friendships with Indian gentlemen than perhaps with any ''civilized" individuals, I am in a position to state that the native definitely despises any white man who presumes to judge his people without at least a period of 15 years' residence in India to his credit...
...There is hardly a regiment in Italy in which other Americans are not being held. Some of them are terrorized. They have relatives there who appeal to them not to say anything lest dire punishment be visited upon them...