Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collared, seemed destined for Nazi concentration camps. Finally no check on Nazi terrorism was possible last week because the League's Saar Governing Commission dared not respond to incessant appeals for protection by ordering out the international plebiscite army of Britons, Italians, Netherlander and Swedes. Shrugged an Italian soldier: "Unless I get orders from Geneva, I just don't see people beaten up in the streets...
...George Arliss would have conducted himself had he been in command of the army which defeated Bonaparte at Waterloo. Physically, of course, he does not come up to the heroic proportions with which we have mentally endowed the great general, and when he totteringly asseverates that he is "a soldier, not a politician," we somehow assume that Disraeli is indulging in a charming bit of modesty. The real Wellington would have been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious about the brewing of his tea, perhaps more brusque and profane at the council table...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...
...citizens have been buying his pictures and singing his praise almost since he began painting. He is often convinced he is a better teacher than painter. In Munich. once mastered in a few weeks the technique of glass painting when German artists insisted on making a bearded Civil War soldier (for a Cedar Rapids memorial window) look like Christ...
...truth is I am more of a farmer than a soldier. I take little or no interest in military affairs. I never went into the army without regret and I never retired without pleasure." Thus, to a shocked German Crown Prince, spoke the great General Grant, full fed on victories and honors. Biographer McCormick quotes his hero's unheroic remark with Yankee pride, proceeds to argue that Grant was the greatest soldier of them all. Grant's military genius, thinks the publisher of the Chicago Tribune, has never had its due; his reputation has been unjustly overshadowed...