Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worry about anything so trivial? Not yet have the front-line trenches of the World War produced anything faintly resembling a good novel, nor to my mind will they. I don't suppose we shall even have a story by a real soldier describing exactly his emotions at the front, pleasure and excitement-the exultation of coming alive to the end of a day and of an action-as well as the pain and horror...
...research worker for an industrial corporation conceives and patents a new device or process, the corporation usually gets it. But if a U. S. soldier designs a bullet or a U. S. sailor a boatswain's whistle, it is his to sell to the Government...
...Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, arch-lobbyist of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (TIME, July 1), last week hinted, in an article for Collier's magazine, at a new way of enforcing Prohibition. Excerpts: "Every soldier and sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect...
Capt. Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, M. P., diligent soldier, former Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, now a grizzled, crop-lipped campaigner with 25 years' service in the Conservative ranks, was led last week to the Chair of the House of Commons. Solemnly following the ritual, Capt. Fitzroy made "formal gestures of protest,'' shook his head, thrust out his arms pleadingly. Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...