Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film is a monstrous lie!" shouted Colonel Rollet. "You know, Soldier Clare, there is justice in the Legion." "Oui, mon Colonel." "I wish I had the man here who made that film!* "But you, Soldier Clare, know that it is a lie. When you return to America, give us a square deal. Tell the truth, that's all I want." "Oui, mon Colonel." "Touchy." At Marseille, Deserter Doty said: "Colonel Rollet is a touchy old egg, but he's been on the level. . . . The Legion is no young ladies' seminary, though I've never been...
...self-sacrificing service." Mme. Schumann-Heink cried, kissed Walter Damrosch who had presented them, and made a speech: "Now I say goodbye, but that does not mean that I shall become useless. I hope still to continue to serve my country. Heretofore I have given my heart to the soldier boys, but now I must look after the girls-if they behave themselves and don't smoke or powder their noses-for you know I am looking for a contralto to whom to pass on my work...
...world laughed in her cartoons and journalistic satire at the bird cages, umbrellas, and fans of the Chinese soldiers. But this soldier of yesterday is passing. The informal pleasant weather fighting has been displaced by modern war, and the 3,000,000 armed men have become a song of death to China, and a menace to the entire world...
...motif of the plot arises from the complications attending the return of a soldier, who was thought to have been dead for ten years--an old idea, but treated in a new way, for the soldier finds that his return is undesirable. His wife has remarried, and his father, formerly a poor clerk, has climbed to amazing heights upon the reputation of his deceased son, one of the great war heroes of France. What inconvenience, then, to have the son resurrected. The only good hero is a dead hero, and not only that, but the son reveals that identification tags...
...principal figure of the story is Bachelet, the soldier's father, admirably played by Mr. Thomas Shearer. In the prologue we see him as an obscure but sincere character--still a clerk after a lifetime in his office spent watching his contemporaries promoted over him by the use of influence. The war and its injustice are intolerable to him. Then the news of his son's heroic death comes to him, and everything seems to have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human...