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...frequently played the Presbyterian Mission at Sungkiang, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tang Shao-yi. Early competition was also found in the crews of clipper ships, later from visiting warships of the U.S. Navy, and finally mainly from men in the famed 4th Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps. The Fourth of July was always the big game of the year, the highlight of the American community's celebration that followed the consul-general's reception and the big party at the American Club...
...Programming. The album's ten sections, arranged and conducted by Richard Bales, of the Washington, D.C. National Gallery Orchestra, underscores different facets of the war. First is General Lee's Grand March, a frothy two-step that might have come from Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment. Next come wistful and militant soldiers' songs, e.g., Bonnie Blue Flag and Somebody's Darling. Others are drenched with sentiment; still others suggest the progressive bitterness of the occupation...
Nigel Molesworth, no weed, cad, dirty rotter or funk, is the curse of St. Custard's, or so he claims. St. Custard's is a very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES...
...slaughter. In a letter marked "Not to be delivered till after my death," Frank bade his parents a cheerful farewell -"the parting will not be for long. Merely for an infinitesimal space of time out of eternity." He was killed at 22, three months after joining the Gloucester Regiment at the front in France...
Christ as a Corporal. This is the fable: in the last year of the war, 1918, a French infantry regiment of General Gragnon's crack division is ordered to attack the German line. Officers and noncoms leap from the trench on signal, but the men mutiny and refuse to attack. Gragnon, a dedicated soldier and a good general, goes to the commander in chief and demands that the entire regiment be executed. But odd things have been happening all along the Western front. For one thing, the Germans seem to know about the mutiny in advance, yet fail...