Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States, as well as by nearly all of the thousands of great men whose names are mentioned in history, and the only great man who ever came forth to dispute these things from the Bible down is this marvelous General Hugh S. Johnson, who labels himself a soldier and a lawyer...
...than the Morgans who never thought of such a diabolical scheme. Is the next Long-Coughlin-Johnson battle going to be waged over Harvard University? We hope so, we have written them all about it and Mr. Richberg for good measure. To think that Harvard has a real chocolate soldier with an underslung vocabulary...
...dressed up in flounces and high-button boots for this picture, she steps into a rôle cut down to her size with all the assurance of the capable actress she is. She reviews a regiment which has made her honorary colonel; tap dances with Bill Robinson; plays soldier with Lionel Barrymore; is the comfort of her mother's lonely life (Evelyn Venable) and even dresses up in Civil War hoopskirts to render "Love's Young Dream" on the harp...
...hard to conceive of Mr. Holmes over attaining the prestige that was his if he had continued being a soldier. It's hard to believe that the jurist who had the world at his feet a few short weeks before his death would like to be thought of as a man of blood. The paradox is not only ludicrous, but grim...
...fanatical schemes and such poor devils as Cervantes got never a drop. As a young man with no future, he jumped at the chance of getting out of Spain, going to Rome as Spanish teacher to a Papal legate. There, for something else to do, he became a soldier and went off to fight the Turks. In the bloody sea-battle of Lepanto a bullet shattered his left hand, made him a hero...