Word: softer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Better 'Ole" purports to represent a faithful picture of Tommy Atkins as made famous through Captain Bairns-father's cartoons. Therefore its chief characteristic naturally is humor, which, blended with some of the softer feelings which find such remarkable expression in the private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award...
Napoleon's dragoons have gone, but their artistic temperament has lived on to find a re-opening in the spirit of the fighting diners of Memorial. Napoleon's men pelted "The Last Supper" with brickbats; their successors have used potatoes and biscuits, usually softer but no less dangerous missiles, to pelt the pictures that line the walls of Memorial Hall. Napoleon's men probably did not know that in "The Last Supper" Leonardo da Vinci had done a world masterpiece; our fighting contemporaries probably do not appreciate the fact that Memorial contains pictures of great value from the hands...