Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia," shrilled Haile Selassie, "will fight until the last soldier and the last inch! Let every man who is not wounded or sick take arms and enough food to last five days and march north to fight the invader...
...much noise around here I can't remember what it is I'm supposed to forget." More at home in Under Two Flags are Ronald Colman, who wore a kepi and baggy pants in Beau Geste ; Victor McLaglen, who has played many a bullying soldier; and Claudette Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits...
...This reverent attitude and the genuine historical excitement of the film leave little time for cinematic frivolity. Nevertheless, familiar to U. S. followers of the cinematic hostility between cocky James Cagney and dogged Pat O'Brien is the antipathy which the sailor Balashov (G. Bushuyev) holds for the soldier Burmistrov, originating, as is always the case with Cagney v. O'Brien, over the disputed favors of a lady. Only strictly Soviet contribution to this aged Hollywood situation is the prim Communist conclusion in which it is revealed that the girl is beyond the reach of both sailor...
...professor since 1913. He has written several previous works on William James, including "William James' Essays in Radical Empiricism," and "James' Collected Essays and Reviews." He is also the author of "General Theory of Value," "Philosophy of the Recent Past," and "The Free Man and the Soldier...
...drove him against his inclinations into public life, had the same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose the biparty system. Author Adams admits that Hamilton was the favorite...