Word: soldierly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
General Chiang was now master of South and Central China but many Kuomintang politicians denounced him as a Fascist or worse. With a characteristic gesture he resigned all his offices and went to Japan. There Chiang, the shrewd, hardheaded, hard-living, callous soldier who had made his way to power, proceeded to court pretty, educated, high-minded Soong Meiling. Her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, today China's greatest financier, informed General Chiang as courteously as possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling...
...upstart. Lord Gort is a sixth Viscount, an old Harrovian, a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron, and grandson of famed Robert Smith Surtees, author of the fox hunters' bible Handley Cross. It also happens that he is a professional soldier of great ability, holds the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration...
...this the old soldier recounted, in pompous language but frank detail, in memoirs which he wrote for his kinsmen only. He was aware that he had led a remarkable life, believed that he had lived in a remarkable age. After his right hand was crippled at Ball's Bluff, he learned to write with his left. But his left arm was paralyzed at Antietam, so when he sat down to tell the story of his life he shifted back to the crippled right...
...tempo is set in the first story, "The Brave Soldier and the Wicked Sorcerer" when the note of modern precision's victory over the ignorance and superstition of the past is struck. The young Red soldier returns gloriously to his village to marry his girl in spite of the extorting opposition of the sorcerer and hostility of the priest. He beats the sorcerer for his prediction of a baby with a hairy body and a long black tall, and justice is vigorously upheld when the latter's suit for damages is dismissed by the Soviet court because of his attempt...
...Wenatchee, Wash., Reporter Lynn Leonard signed up subscribers to a fund for the benefit of "the widow of the Unknown Soldier." He had difficulty in persuading several not to force cash upon him at once...