Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life courses on persistently in the elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept...
...three "B" capitals of Eastern Europe. ¶ "B" stood for Belgrade. There the Jugoslavian Government was reminded of Italian enmity, last week, by tidings that the newspapers of Rome, ever subservient to Dictator Benito Mussolini, were por-tentiously in frenzy over a Jugoslavian pamphlet entitled, What Every Jugoslavian Soldier Ought To Know...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...
Craning from countless small balconies, Romans peered and cheered ecstatically. They cheered the Amir, peered at his consort and their daughters. So there were Afghan amazons, the kind of women who, when a soldier is wounded, "come out to cut up what remains." After a short peer, Romans delightedly readjusted their impressions. Her Majesty, Queen Badsha of Afghanistan, is a slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave...
...characteristic of the book, moreover, that may ideas are impressed on the perhaps forever, because the author invokes a lasting image for us by writing; for example: "Such a cell is an individual soldier of the army, having his proper place in the company of his fellows-." For Professor Hill is of those rare and fortunate men who having something worth while to say, can say it as well as it could be said...