Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time, however, that their efforts would be of little avail, for the flames were already showing signs of subsiding through sheer lack of sustaining fuel. At 5.30 o'clock this morning, the smouldering embers and skeleton walls were a mute testimony to the tinderbox qualities and inadequacy of Soldier Field's superannuated and condemned athletic center...
...French fort, was promoted to the staff of the then Commander-in-Chief of the German Offensive, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, and received from the Imperial hand itself the Iron Cross. Quiet Dr. Curtius, who looks even more like a U. S. businessman than M. Tardieu, is the first soldier to be appointed Foreign Minister of the German Republic...
...intellects: Langham, the brilliant Radical politician, pro-Boer now, anti-German later; Talbot the East End vicar, gently skeptical of the ways of men, passionately curious about the ways of fungi; young Bolt, the old shipwright's son, who wants to be a teacher, a journalist, anything but the soldier's corpse he finally becomes...
...first corpse Lieut. Graves saw in France was the body of a soldier suicide. Says he: there was a good deal of shooting in the War that never got into the newspapers. Two young miners hated their sergeant and decided to kill him. Later they reported to the adjutant: "'We've come to report, sir, that we are very sorry but we've shot our company sergeant-major.' The adjutant said: 'Good heavens how did that happen?' They answered: 'It was an accident, sir . . . we mistook him for our platoon sergeant...
Graves had great sympathy for conscientious objectors. Lytton Strachey, says Graves, was one, and when he was called for examination, chose to stand on his scruples rather than his obvious physical disability. When asked: "What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" he replied, "with an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them...