Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unperturbed by all this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
...York last week, comfortably full of U. S. tourists, Italy's gaudy, ornate, popular Vulcania cleared from Naples pack-jammed with excited Italian troops. They waved pith helmets, brandished rifles tipped with the Italian tricolor and roared alternately "Live The Duce!" and "Live The King!" In each soldier's breast pocket was a handy picture of Il Duce inspiringly autographed...
...will get their news orally at the War Office, face drastic prosecution if their verbal informant sees fit to accuse them of misquotation. Press feats of the week included high praise in every Italian paper for a mother who, asked why she was sobbing on the dock as her soldier son sailed, explained through her tears: "I am not sorry that my son is going to fight for Italy. If I had two sons, I should send them both!" (sobs...
...Canadian province which grossed approximately $3,000,000, returns to Manhattan this week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its première. Chu Chin Chow, which opened in London in 1916 and closed three years after the Armistice, ran long enough (2,238 performances) for practically every soldier in the Allied armies to have seen it. Abie's Irish Rose, which got to be a national habit, played 2,532 performances in New York alone, while nine companies took it on the road. But The Green Pastures had by this week become a quasireligious, semi-public...
Europe's distinguished scholar, author, and soldier, Philippe-Jules-Fernand Baldensperger, professor of Modern Comparative Literature at the University of Paris, has been elected professor of Comparative Literature for five years beginning next September...