Word: shavetail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiritualist Ford's autobiographic apologia does not demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida...
...Gavin that he had written off his chances of becoming Chief of Staff. Certainly his career-had been headed in that direction. Born in Brooklyn, he climbed steadily up the brass rungs of the Army's ladder since the day in 1929 when he pinned on his shavetail's bars at West Point. General George C. Marshall tagged him as a comer early in World War II. He served with distinction as General Matt Ridgway's deputy commander, jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division on Dday. At 37, succeeding Ridgway as boss of the 82nd...
...above the street. "Do come back, Eddie!" burbled his girl friend. "We know how brave you are!" Downing half his drink and pouring the rest on the plebeians below, Eddie came back, manfully set forth to return to the Royal Scots Greys, in which he is a dashing shavetail...
...Marine Corps noncom.* wounded three times, who won a D.S.C., Navy Cross and Croix de Guerre, and had every right to the bitter pity with which he wrote his novel. Among its 113 characters, every military type is represented-the good soldier, the coward, the goldbrick, the rank-happy shavetail, the lucky and the wound-prone. Each is caught in one lurid moment of his life, as if March had composed by the light of a Very pistol...
...Marine training that turns a shave-headed boot into a dedicated fighting man whose faith is in his rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval officer with his pistol; Brigadier General (now Congressman) James P. S. Devereux, the defender of Wake Island; General Thomas Holcomb, the father of the modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant in World War I ("Come on, you sons of bitches...