Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bacon statuary group for the Memorial Church, which was moved from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York by motor truck, arrived in the Harvard Yard yesterday morning and is now resting on the front portico of the Chapel. The statue, representing a mother and her soldier son, will be moved into the Memorial Room of the Church as soon as staging being used by decorators inside can be taken down, probably the latter part of this week...
Lehman v. Donovan. Declared Herbert Henry Lehman, Democratic nominee for Governor of New York: "I want to pay a personal tribute to the Wartime record of my distinguished opponent. Col. Donovan. He was a loyal, brave, upstanding soldier, a splendid regimental commander. I deeply and sincerely admire his war record." Rapped back ''Wild Bill" Donovan, Republican nominee: "What we need now is not some very fine and very amiable man. What we need is someone a little rougher and who is not so sweet and amiable. This is a tough time...
...Soldier Bonus remained last week the question most voters most wanted Governor Roosevelt to answer. While waiting for him to speak out people were told to reread carefully an interview he gave the North America Newspaper Alliance last April. Said he then: "I don't see how, as a matter of practical sense, a government running behind $2,000,000,000 annually can consider the anticipation of Bonus payments until it has a balanced Budget, not only on paper but with a surplus of cash in the Treasury...
Like most men who lead violent lives, Morosini's artistic taste was that of a bright 15-year-old boy. He loved to play soldier. Besides his valuable armor, Elmhurst was littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking...
...corn liquor. But, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day." He writes always in longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo's whirr. He says he never reads reviews of his books. The two books he most admires are Moby Dick and The Nigger of the Narcissus...