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...storm clouds of World War I gather in Europe. Here the jingoistic, "big-stick" aspect of Roosevelt's personality obscured through most of the show, becomes clear. Unable to sit quietly in his old age and act the part of an elder statesman, T.R. rounds up a volunteer regiment and offers to lead them into the fray, an offer promptly refused by President Wilson. Still, all four sons serve courageously, with the youngest, Quentin, flying for the air corps, and the blustery old roughrider shouts a rousing "bully" at the news of every medal they receive. The fervor...
...than Olympic heights and similarly on the downward scale. The choreography is mostly precise and beautifully executed, especially a magnificent number called, "Raising Your Spirits," in which a line of ersatz dames in devil suits (a genre for which I myself have always had a soft spot) tap in regiment behind clouds of stage smoke. Now that, as the saw and moguls on the west coast would say, is entertainment...
...frivolities, he has served with great bravery, earning a reputation for combat discipline, skill in training men and planning tactical military operations. Two years ago, he created a new drill for light-infantry companies and pioneered a new system whereby flexible, fast-paced companies were attached to every regiment of the line. Lord George Germain, Britain's Secretary of State for the American Colonies and a leading advocate of an aggressive policy, remarked when Howe was appointed that no other officer was so well qualified to teach European soldiers how to fight from "behind trees, walls or hedges...
...being a very hot day, we were served along the platform with grog in fire-buckets, which we partook of very heartily. I never had a more agreeable draft." With these surprising words, Colonel William Moultrie, 45, commander of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, was recounting not an assault upon some savanna-side grogshop but a striking colonial victory off Charles Town, South Carolina. In a bitter ten-hour action, Moultrie and 435 men inflicted heavy losses upon a strong British naval squadron under the command of Commodore Sir Peter Parker (two ships of the line, six frigates, the bomb...
...There is a time to pray and a time to fight," proclaimed Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, 29. Then, before his astonished flock in Woodstock, Virginia, he tore off his vestments to reveal the uniform of a militia officer. That was last January. Now Muhlenberg is colonel of the regiment he raised himself, the 8th Virginia. But the country's main Lutheran leader, his father Henry, follows Martin Luther in mistrusting revolutions. Other churches are also taking sides...