Word: smedley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
...that one reason why conversation isn't so good as it used to be, and ought to be, is that people go to teas, and stand up all through them. You can't talk well standing up, he says, which just goes to show that he's never met Smedley D. Butler, Hugh S. Johnson or One-Eyed Connolly, or never stood up in a pre-war saloon, where conversation was practically rampant...
...veterans rolled out of their blankets in the pine barrens around the CCC camp at Elkridge, Md. The brassy bugle notes of "Assembly" hurried them to the camp's parade ground, where, mounted on a white horse and surrounded by his staff, they found their leader, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. M. C., retired...
...military officer of the U. S. since the late, tempestuous George Custer has succeeded in publicly floundering in so much hot water as Smedley Darlington Butler. After a gallant career in all quarters of the globe with the Marines, General Butler was ''borrowed" by Philadelphia in 1924 to clean up that city's bootlegging. The hot-headed general resigned the following year, declaring that he had been made the respectable "front" for a gang of political racketeers. In 1927 he made front pages again by preferring charges of drunkenness against a Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif...
...York, Nov. 20--A thorough investigation of Fascist activities in the United States was promised tonight as result of alleged statements by Major General Smedley D. Butler that he had been asked by a group of wealthy New Yorkers to lead a right wing movement designed to set up a dictatorship in Washington...