Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widely ballyhooed community banquet (1,000 guests), Kankakee toasted a pair of local boys, Harry Stella and Allen Bergner. Born within eight months of one another (the year before thg U. S. entered the Great War), young Stella, son of an Italian immigrant, wanted to be a soldier; young Bergner, son of a German immigrant, wanted to be a sailor. Playmates from boyhood, both made the football team at Kankakee High School: Stella at right tackle, Bergner at left tackle. When they were graduated, Stella went to West Point, Bergner to Annapolis...
...There was no public acclamation for him. The police scarcely let his top hat come into public view. So numerous were the guards around the Arc de Triomphe when Herr Ribbentrop, wearing the German Iron Cross, laid a swastika-decorated wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier, that few saw this unprecedented ceremony...
...that last day of the fast (Thanksgiving Eve in the U. S.) most of the soldiers were licking their chops in anticipation of the gorging they would do for the feast of Bairam during the next three days. Among their number, however, was one young sepoy who, half-crazed through abstention, ran amuck during the night. He forced his way into the tent of the battalion's major, with his rifle shot the major dead in his sleep. Aroused, five other officers-three British and two Indian-rushed to the scene. Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang,-the sepoy killed...
Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...
Died. Lieutenant Lansing C. ("Denny") Holden, 42, famed World War flying ace. soldier of fortune, archeologist, architect and Technicolor expert; when a New York National Guard plane crashed near Sparta, Tenn. Also killed in the crash was another famed War flier, Lieutenant Raymond W. Krout...