Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Royal Commissioners who thought otherwise, Professor Gutteridge clarioned: "I knew of soldiers who were working in a temperature of 100 degrees, attending to furnaces in France, while their mates at home were getting ?10 [$50] a week on munitions. If the British soldier had not been the magnificent man he was, he wouldn't have stood for this...
...have not impaired. Though Bruce's capture of her brother temporarily dampens their ardor, her adroit manager (Reginald Owen) brings them together for one last meaningful duet. Good shot: Gilda Gray, celebrated a decade ago for her extraordinary hip movements, showing cafe patrons what made her famed. Professional Soldier (Twentieth Century-Fox). An ex-colonel of Marines (Victor McLaglen) kidnaps a Balkan...
...same time, some of the most telling effects are gained through a tongue-in-the-cheek subtlety. When the doddering idiot of a king is told to account for the presence of the soldier class by explaining that they are the conquering subjects, he innocently announces that they conquer the subjects. And when this same monarch is called upon to speak to his pugilistic parliament, his crafty prime minister starts a phonograph going beneath the royal robes. This is quite impressive until the minister in his vehemence breaks the record and the needle keeps repeating in the same...
From Harding's time onward it has been one of the chief duties of presidents to veto bonus legislation. But $3000 a head for each soldier killed or wounded in the war is not enough tribute, according to the beneficiaries, the living. "Gimme, gimme", is the unending cry of the veterans, Who for the most part never saw a German shell. "I wore a uniform, didn...
...inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation in to a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...