Word: soldats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, the scarlet pompons of the Garde Republicaine blazed around the Gare des Invalides. Bands played "The Star-Spangled Banner." General Pershing and Commander Savage proceeded at once to the Arc de Triomphe and the grave of the Soldat Inconnu. They had brought half a bronze wreath, the other half of which lay on the Unknown Soldier's grave in Arlington, Va. France's highest officialdom joined the Americans in two minutes of silence and a rigid salute, followed by Taps on a sad bugle through the drizzle...
Twenty thousand legionnaires on the sea?hundreds pouring into Paris each day. Some followed one-armed General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, through the pouring rain to the Arc de Triomphe, where the Lamp of Maintenance on the Tomb of the Soldat Inconnu was relighted, hav-ing been snuffed out by the Communists (TIME, Sept. 5), who spat upon and "otherwise defiled" the sacred spot...
...Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food from their own meagre rations to le soldat Anglais...
Heat, dust, fever, mosquitoes, mud towns, mangy camels, the hot ever-blowing harmattan, absinthe, loneliness, monotony, forced marches through the desert sand, Africa, loneliness, loneliness, is the dirge of the legionnaire. "J'ai le cafard," announces the soldat and he is amok with a little beetle running round and round in his brains. Sometimes he slices off his sergeant's head, sometimes he wets his jowls with his own red blood, oftener he deserts...
...dissonances and cross-rhythms of the Strawinsky Suite, "L'Histoire du Soldat", from which Mr. Whiing and his associates will play two selections, are startling, but interesting in showing the trend of the most daring of modern composers. It is an extraordinary example of up-to-date music...