Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he was supposed to be mounting guard on the roof of the President's Palace one night last week, a Cuban soldier sauntered over to the ventilating pipe above President Gerardo Machado y Morales' bathroom...
Last week's Battle of the Bonus between the White House and the Capitol was a fast-moving drama of legislation. The President was against it, financially, economically, morally. But that greatest of political bugaboos, the "soldier vote," had stampeded an overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives toward H. R. 17054, regardless of their private judgment. Fortnight ago the House had rammed the measure through by a 363-to-37 vote. Last week came the Senate's turn to show its disdain of White House opinions...
...argument against war and it points its theme less editorially than All Quiet on the Western Front, which may be. why the German nationalists did not ban it for home consumption as they did Carl Laemmle's picture. The framework is the friendship of four German soldiers and their varying fates. Best sequences: the soldier who goes home to find that his wife has deceived him with the butcher's helper...
When someone has to be beaten in Russia, and the someone may be a refractory Red Army soldier, or of course a prisoner of the G. P. U., the order is dat shompola, "to give the cleaning rod." A heavy "rod" of twisted wire, such as soldiers use to clean their rifles, is used as a whip...
...political man at all and I do not understand politics, but I am a soldier, and as a soldier I see that Bolshevism constitutes a grave military danger to my country. That is enough...