Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coming home the long way - via hospitals. Each week the program is broadcast from a different U.S. military hospital (and is paid for by a different sponsor, who earnestly tries to play down his plugs). Variety entertainment is provided by such glittering stars as Bing Crosby, Ann Sheridan, Bob Hope, Grace Moore. But the high spot is a strictly...
...Past. Cavalryman Patton gallops along in a tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...
Postwar Guide. Her first book was Reconstruction in Louisiana. To students now concerned with the postwar world, this detailed account of what happened in defeated Louisiana-where Federal troops (and bullet-headed General Phil Sheridan) remained in occupation until 1877-is invaluable. To plain readers it is a collection of facts which their histories have neglected to give them-including a brilliant sketch of the Negro Governor Warmoth, who was only 26 when he took office. Like Dr. Lonn's next painful subject-Desertion During the Civil War-the book is gall & wormwood to romanticists of the Old South...
...Sheridan, dressed in old clothes, posed on a Hollywood street and got a free facial-in blackface-from ace cinemakeup man, Perc Westmore. She then drove down Hollywood Boulevard in an open car to fulfill her election bet with Democrat Westmore. Hollywood bets led to other antics...
Taking up for herself, Actress Sheridan went even farther, offered to "fight boy fashion, no holds barred," with anybody who thought she had dogged it. In a letter to Roundup's editor, she claimed that her tour was made at considerable personal sacrifice, added: "I'm wondering if your wife, sweetheart or sister has bucket-seated her way 60,000 miles . . . at better than a thousand miles a day, playing even two bad shows, eating C-or K-rations more often than hot groceries, much of it standing up, and then when it's littler girl...