Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a little whippersnapping "boy scout" writes to TIME [Aug. 1] and objects to the printing of a "Boy Scout" story under your "Army & Navy" head, I think it is time for an old soldier and campaigner to state his views...
Prince Henry, third son of George V, spoke modestly enough at a Royal Academy banquet in London, saying: "Please remember that by profession I am a soldier, and that a soldier's training does not lead along the high road...
...Director of Military Operations of the Imperial British General Staff was, from 1915 to 1918, Major General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, who may certainly be assumed to know as much about the War as any man alive. Recently this great soldier and tactician picked up and read two fat volumes† about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf. As he read. Sir Frederick apparently began to experience a sense of scorn. Here were errors of fact, sloppiness, perversions of truth and everywhere the pink and soapy touch of superficiality...
When asked about his future plans, Commander de Pinedo said: "I am a soldier at my government's orders...
...sweetest catch. In this film, evolved pleasantly enough from A. Hamilton Gibb's novel, Soundings, the cocky Lothario finds that a glance from Nancy (Lois Moran) plumbs depths of emotion hitherto unknown and strangely captivating. Most of this goes on in Flanders Fields where he is a soldier and she an ambulance driver; where one may sigh for a battered village and smile at pompous officers...