Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famine, a prosperous land that absorbs annually $36,000,000 worth of U. S. goods. Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...
Milly Burden became pregnant in a small Virginia town. Her lover, Martin Welding, a nervewracked U. S. soldier, had returned to France after the War. Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others. Furthermore Milly reminded Lawyer Littlepage of his daughter, Mary Victoria. Encouraged by softness, Milly confided her worry over Welding's nerves. In return, Lawyer Littlepage had Mary Victoria, who was in Europe, look Welding...
Whatever his aims, he remains a good soldier. In a dusty grey motor he rushed, last week, from arsenal to arsenal through Persia, counting cartridges. At Teheran he beamed as shiny new bombing planes, just purchased from Berlin, landed on the flying field. Wasting no time, he despatched the bombers to blow up the sheep and the goats, the oxen and asses of the rebellious Arabs in an effort to cut off their chief food source. He inspected a fleet of armored cars for hill-fighting...
...Charleston youth sees the Yankees fire on Fort Sumter. A Baltimore clerk gets caught in a riot. Grant thinks. Someone preaches a pro-slavery sermon. Lincoln thinks. A Yank soldier, intoxicated in New Orleans, raves against Creole gentility. Richmond's Spinster Araminta steals a loaf of bread. An old Jew beats a Negro woman for her prejudice against Jews. In the lull of battle, Cecile bestows her virginity on her Confederate fiance, to make his respite happy. Gettysburg scenes. New York draft riot scenes. Fragments of letters, newspapers...
During his last eight years the late, great Foch was attended by Aide-de-Camp Bugnet, an efficient, obedient soldier, now an author who tries to reveal not Marshal Foch but Monsieur Foch. From the nature of the man as well as the Boswell, one could scarcely expect a record of daily life and opinions comparable in readability with, for example, Jean Jacques Brousson's record of Foch's brother-Academician, Anatole France. It was inevitable that people must learn that Foch's "private life was irreproachable" and that he considered "born believers" the world...