Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings of the Exchequer...
...quickened or enlivened her. Had she possessed the taste for pearls, for magnificence, for pageantry of her late mother-in-law (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), the Dowager Queen Margherita, splendor-loving Italians might have enthroned Elena in their fickle hearts. But she is practical. Many an Italian soldier, wounded during the World War, knows that it was due to Queen Elena's good sense in supervising the Italian Red Cross that he was attended by old, uncomely nurses...
...spite of mules and in spite of poor housing conditions, the doughboy must eat. "No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer," said the lewd but shrewd General John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. As everyone knows, the U. S. Army gets no beer from the Government. As for the beef-very little of that can be bought with a daily per capita food appropriation of 35c. (The Navy is allowed...
Last week Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, told the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army food rations were lower than those of convicts in Federal prisons. The soldier gets only one good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation...
...Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer: "I called upon Signor Mussolini at Rome last week, and succeeded in convincing newsgatherers of the purely social nature of my visit by going out to the ruined Baths of Caracalla daily and working hard to sketch and paint them, facile artist-statesman-soldier-author that...