Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Padded Uniforms, The sturdy North Chinese soldier fights (hyperbolic Mr. Lo notwithstanding) neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally...
Coal-black, naked, a young African Negress converted to Christianity by a female missionary sets out through the jungle to look for God. She meets the God of Genesis, the God of Job, Ecclesiastes. Micah, Pavlov, a Roman soldier, Christ, St. Peter and a procession of churches, a caravan of intellectuals, Mohammed, an imagemaker, Voltaire, and finally Shaw. Naive but nobody's fool, the black girl questions everyone she meets but finds no satisfactory answers. The Gods of Genesis and Job enrage her and she attacks them with her knobkerry (that and a Bible are her only impedimenta). Christ...
...soldier who never fired...
Smart Poles realize that non-Poles, broadly speaking, have never heard the name of that worthy, honest, unassuming man, President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland. On the other hand the world has heard too much about the eccentricities (slanderously said "to amount to madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called...
...scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia hoping to find it a way-station to Eldorado, Soldier of Fortune John Smith was one of the biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured him he knew death came next, was ready to take it with...