Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official celebration? Certainly not on the anniversary of the death of his illustrious father. Not on August 9, for it is then too hot in Rome. But perhaps he would care to have it celebrated on May 24, the day upon which Italy entered the War? No, the Soldier-King, as the Italians call him, would not hold his jubilee on that day. He recalled that June 7 was Constitution Day, commanded that, on that day, would be celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his reign. It is typical of him to choose such...
Engaged. Miss Kitty Kiernan of Longford, Ireland, onetime fiancee of the late Michael Collins, to General Felix Cronin, Irish soldier. Three former fiances, all soldiers, have met violent deaths. The first, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot in her father's inn; the second and the third (the famed Collins) were shot during the summer of 1922 by Irish Republicans...
...fashion, refusing haughtily all offers of help. "We shall meet again in Morocco," was the grim retort of ex-Premier Count Romanones, the Liberal leader. Subsequent events thoroughly disillusioned General Rivera and his colleagues. The Riffs proved stronger than was supposed; but General Rivera is at least an able soldier and his strategy was masterful. For months, he worked out a plan; and then the world was startled by the announcement that the Spanish forces in Morocco had retired to the Anjera line. This line - a chain of trenches and fortified positions- had behind it all the important and most...
...Little French Girl. Almost inevitably a popular novel will turn to dust in the grasp of the director-particularly a novel dealing with domestic psychologies of love, legal and otherwise, divorce and that sort of thing. The mother is in love with a soldier; he is engaged to someone else; the mother's daughter gets mixed in it all. Alice Joyce and Neil Hamilton assist with commendable performances...
Beneath the ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres, in the last, gloomy days of 1914, sat an old soldier on a white horse : Field Marshal Sir John French, tears streaming down his face, watched the remnants of the "Old Contemptibles" (Regular Army) file past him after their place in the fighting line had been taken by the territorials (Home Defense Force which volunteered almost to a man for service abroad). Last week, Death carried off this famous soldier in his 73d year. He died of complications arising from an operation for appendicitis performed last March. Little more than...