Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books like Hervey Allen's Toward The Flame, big battles are presented from the plain soldier's point of view as little more than explosions of murderous confusion. Captain Liddell Hart's A History of the World War, caustically analyzing the strategy of opposing generals, gives the impression that battles were almost as confusing to the professionals who planned and directed them. Readers who want to add to their knowledge of what happened at the Somme, the Marne, Cambrai, St. Mihiel, Mons-and why it happened as it did-can get some insight into the confusion from...
...Last week War Mothers' President Mrs. Irving Fairweather watched the flag hoisted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Chief Lobbyist Millard Rice. The hoisting was followed by a speech from Florida's onetime (1933-37) Governor David Sholtz, a rendering of The Unknown Soldier, composed by the late Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin, by the U. S. Navy School of Music Band. Thus observed in the nation's capital last week, the 19th Anniversary of the end of the World War was more or less similarly celebrated throughout the rest...
Most substantial realism was in two paintings by 32-year-old Julio Castellanos, One, Dialogue, showed a doped, unbuttoned soldier sitting on the edge of a prostitute...
...Deanna Durbin should turn up at a Leverett House cocktail party about six years from now, she will probably get credit for cheering herself hoarse at Soldier's Field, but the real culprits will be the people who made her sing La Traviata way back in 1937 when she was only fourteen. In "100 Men and a Girl," now playing at the University, Deanna turns in a perfectly splendid performance in spite of the supporting cast of Adolphe Menjou, Eugene Pallette and Mischa Auer...
...What?" his new show, now playing at the Colonial, is crammed full of delicious gags. Nevertheless, every funny line is an effective jab against war. Ed, as Chuckles, the native inventor of strange gases is always wondering what it's all about. "I hear they found a Spanish soldier in the Spanish army," he shricks. "This antuggling must be stopped...