Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coolies, soldiers, and hundreds of round-eyed little boys stood in the market place at Tsinanfu and marveled. Bent over a barrel was the Honorable Wu Cha-ding, Commissioner of the Wenchang Bureau of Public Safety. Standing over him was a strong-armed soldier with a broad wooden paddle in his hand who lustily belabored Mr. Wu's quivering bottom...
Waterloo Bridge (Universal) is a glum but manageable anecdote of prostitution and the War. The heroine, strolling on London's Waterloo Bridge, picks up the hero during the confusion of an air raid. He, a Canadian soldier, fails to perceive that she is a prostitute. She, because she is one, refuses to marry him. This situation could scarcely have had a cheerful resolution but the one the story gives it seems almost a conspiracy in woe. The soldier takes the girl to visit his mother and step father. She tells his mother what she is and runs away back...
...when, in a world which is still only nominally Christian, resort is had to armed force, the Church does not look upon soldiers as murderers or deprive them of its sacraments . . . upon what principle, then, would the literalists ask the Church to bless a soldier going forth to kill the enemy whom Jesus bids him love, and deny its blessing to persons who, while properly debarred from the ecclesiastical solemnization of their marriage, have been remarried under civil sanctions after the case has been reviewed by an ecclesiastical court and found free from moral turpitude...
...Louis Balbis de Berton de Crillon (1543-1615) French soldier, called by Henry IV "the bravest of the brave." He served under Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX as well as Henrys III and IV. He was not present at and strongly condemned the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (1572), which was instigated by King Charles's mother, Catherine de' Medici. The famed Paris hotel on La Place de la Concorde was named for him. Bertrand Du Guesclin (1320 -1380), constable of France, was the most famed French warrior...
...Hoff is a soldier: he goes through with his plan. There are no hitches. He shoots the Prime Minister, makes a clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize he has murdered a man who was not his enemy, who should have been his friend. Hertz, made of weaker stuff than Hoff, tries to persuade him to do as he himself has done: to compromise, to live with unlaid ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself...