Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME trying to rook Senator Tom Walsh? In issue of July 7, you said he voted against the Soldier Bonus. He did not . . . (profanity deleted). He voted FOR the bonus, not once as some white-livered Senate sisters did, but TWICE ... to ride over President Coolidge's veto. That bonus vote of his is going to help re-elect him this year and don't you forget it! He's a good guy, even if the photo of him you used don't look...
Last week 56 Negro Gold Star mothers and widows, guests of the U. S. Government, sailed out of New York Harbor aboard the American Merchant to visit the graves of their soldier sons and husbands in France. They had the vessel all to themselves. They seemed satisfied. But behind were left 53 other Negro Gold Star mothers and widows who were not satisfied, who had refused to make the trip, as a protest against the War Department policy of segregating them on a ship apart from white pilgrims...
...comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes in the guardhouse, oftener in the infirmary or some soft job. Says Author Deval: "A soldier may be as ignorant as he likes as to whether his heart is located on the left or the right . . . but what he must do. what is indispensable for him, is to know one disease?just one. But that one he must know as thoroughly as Widal or the Mayo brothers...
...books is not yet, though by now many an old soldier has blown the gaff on Mars, who lies peacefully dead, or perhaps only sleeping, under the Palace of Versailles...
...opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved his case histories from being boring by his brisk narration, his breezy bits of salaciousness; the sexual life of his jurymen...