Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chained" the Crawford-Gable team goes at it again, and, strangely enough, Clark loses out to Otto Kruger for the moment. But before his magnanimous retreat and final conquest, he and Joan play at sweet nothing's in a boat's swimming pool, in a speakeasy's private dinning room, and in the luxurious hay of a ranch down Buenos Aires way. Stuart Erwin adds his appreciated bit to the general gayety of the sort which Mr. Gable popularized in "it Happened One Night." Of this, unfortunately, there is not enough; and presently the characters find themselves enmeshed...
...German right wing, he marched with startling swiftness through Belgium and northern France. Almost in sight of Paris but separated from von Billow's army and unable to keep communications open, he was beaten at the Marne and subsequently blamed by some tacticians for the German retreat. Few months later he was wounded and retired...
...Because a good general always keeps his lines of retreat clear. Alexander of Jugoslavia paid himself a salary 13 times that of the President of the U. S., lived frugally and banked great slices of it in London, Geneva, Paris, New York...
THIS story of "Retreat from Glory", Lockhart's sequel to his famed "British Agent," is not quite as good as that original opus for the simple reason that the material is not as good. In this tale of travel and experience after the war, Lockhart takes us on his semi-official banking and diplomatic mission to East-central Europe...
...Lockhart is personally as fascinating as ever: humorous, egotistically amusing, naively entertaining. But he does not have the background to work with or the experiences to tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears...