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...present plan for training of the new army is to create a skeleton organization of nine army corps, each composed of two National Guard square divisions and one Regular Army triangular division. Into these the conscripted men will be sifted...
...shrill of boatswains' pipes-finally the lilting bugle notes of liberty call. Over the sides of the stern grey ships, up from the bowels of four submarines poured officers and men, into motor launches, gigs, barges. Ashore they disappeared like snow in spring. The grey ships, manned by skeleton crews, quieted down...
...wars showed in Raemaekers' charcoal stick, if not in his words. Where once he drew blood, desolation, barbed wire, ravished women, a demoniacal Kaiser, he now pictured the forces of the world in abstract, often obvious, images. Churchill was a bluff skipper, Stalin a leering Satan, Hitler a skeleton, the U. S. Isolationist something like a village idiot. A devout Roman Catholic, Raemaekers seemed increasingly preoccupied with the lonely, grave figure of Jesus wandering through the world...
...Quintinie, was a bestseller. Napoleon III read all her books, went to the first nights of all her plays his censor did not ban. In 1863 she dined regularly with the Goncourts, Maupassant, Zola, Taine, Renan, Gautier, Flaubert. Most of them admired her as people admire a prehistoric skeleton. But with Flaubert she struck up a warm friendship. His genius was not yet recognized: she urged him to work, though she confessed in private that "all novels are ultimately written for chambermaids...
...this "skeleton" technique which contrasts with the 1916-17 method, often described as "green officers for green men." At the time only a few officers to each regiment had had previous training, and they selected as junior officers likely-looking candidates from among the recruits. The results was slow and misnecessful training, contranting unfavorably with the results expected from the "skeleton" system...