Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When King Victor heard that a mutilatto,*wished to see him he granted the audience at once. In the Royal presence, Piroli's legs declined to support him and the King, sensing his predicament, invited the maimed soldier to sit beside...
...What can I do for you?" asked the King, after he had listened to a long story of the soldier's misfortunes...
...MALLEY OF SHANGANAGH?Donn Byrne?Century ($1.25). It was a rare, lovely lady that de Bourke O'Malley saw in her white religious robes in the convent garden. She saw a fine young sunburned soldier, and his speech was gentle. So she gave over being Sister Ursula and became Joan O'Malley, religious no longer, though she had given herself in marriage to her Lord Christ Jesus...
...Want My Man. Doris Kenyon is one of the few picture actresses of whom too faint is the chanted praise. They are all pretty. Miss Kenyon acts; possibly that is why she goes unrecognized in Hollywood. In this one, she acts a nurse who marries a blind soldier. His eyes open seven years later and a former sweetheart complicates conditions. Milton Sills is the soldier...
General Andrews was no ordinary soldier. He was the voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier...