Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body is burned. Well, I want to show them they don't know what they're talking about...
...Demagogue Club . . . our slogan is Safety First. . . . Taxes are always unacceptable, never popular, always cost political strength. It's easy for us to vote NO. . . . Some of us just demagogue on anything that happens to come along. . . . We have our farm section . . . our oil friends . . . our beer group. . . . The soldier group of the Demagogue Club . . . is raring to take $1,800,000,000 of the people's money and distribute it among the soldiers. . . . These fellows all know they are guilty and not consistent for one-tenth of a second. . . . But it takes the combined courage and devotion...
Thomas Nast was no soldier in the Civil War, but as a cartoonist he threw himself into it with the same gusto he gave every fight. The South was a nation of tobacco-chewing slave whippers. Lincoln was his saint. Grant his personal hero. In 1862 Fletcher Harper hired him for Harper's Weekly at a good salary. From that day Harper's and Nast were an unbeatable team, the most influential artist, the most influential magazine in the country. When they separated in 1886 Harper's lost its circulation, and Nast, though he tried to start a paper...
...Slim" Hoover, the brave Arizona sheriff of a Wild Western melodrama, vintage 1907. Revived last week, The Round-Up could at least be sure that it was the noisiest play on Broadway. Its cast includes seven broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving a victorious U. S. flag over the smoke-swathed battleground from a papier mache rock. To the enduring credit of the cast and its producers, who intend to present...
...cluttering the field, entries have been reduced from 85 last year to 58. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Easter Hero, who was favorite last year, was retired at Upperville. Va., but the three horses who finished ahead?Grakle, Gregalach and Annandale?were entered again. Among the others were Sea Soldier, a nine-year-old gelding by Man O' War; "Jock" Whitney's Dusty Foot; Gordon Selfridge's steady jumper, Ruddyman; and four of Morgan D. Blair's horses?Ballyhanwood, Prince Cherry, Great Span and Aruntius...