Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
...swept down from Manchukuo, entered "China proper" through the Great Wall and stopped just short of Peiping (TIME, May 29, et ante}. Excerpts from the report* of Lieut.-Commander Morton D. Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded by aerial bombing gave evidence of broken spirit. . . . Air raids at Hsi Feng Kou and again at Chi Hsien gave tragic proof of the nonsanctity of hospitals against aerial bombing...
...plodding Chappells, the other by their livelier cousins, the St. Quentyns. Alastair Chappell, the last of his line, was a little too sensitive for his own comfort. When he rebelled against the more brutal traditions of the regiment it looked as if he would never make a soldier. Alastair made an almost unforgivable blunder when he turned down the chance of marrying his colonel's daughter and fell in love with his cousin, Katherine St. Quentyn. Worse, he took advantage of Katherine's pity to spoil her good name. Luckily the Crimean War had begun...
...Congress, in 1927 to the Senate. Being dignified, well dressed (at least when in Washington), sincere in his convictions, not given to offending men in speech, he made few enemies.† Chief impression of Thomas in the Senate was his work for an oil tariff and for a soldier Bonus. By the latter he was introduced to his big issue, for 1) he planned to finance the Bonus with greenbacks, and 2) two years ago at a hearing on the Bonus bill he met and made friends with George LeBlanc-French Canadian by birth, Manhattan banker by training, and inflationist...
...years mentioned the birth rate was exceptionally high. The men and women born in this period naturally were not participants in the war, but severely felt the effects of it. They were the famous starving children of Germany. They felt their hardships more acutely than did the hardened soldier, and achieved maturity with an inborn hatred of the government that caused their troubles, and of the treaty that it signed. It is only natural that they were ready to accept a new government such as Hitler's, that offered them better conditions in every way. In present day Germany there...