Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around some of the supplies cached at Cape Sabine they first learned of President Garfield's death more than two years before. But by that time the sullen, hungry, miserable men could think and talk of little except meals they had eaten, restaurant menus they had seen. Each soldier was limited to a few ounces of food per day, except for double rations to one whose hands and feet were frozen. The biggest and strongest private in the party, who later proved to have been an escaped murderer, pilfered food from his comrades. After the third offense Lieut. Greely...
...group has ever been so favored and pampered as the bloc of veterans and pseudo-veterans. Some historians say that the present liberality, graft, and falsification makes post Civil War governments look like pikers. The government is now spending an average of nearly three thousand dollars for each soldier killed or wounded in action--compared to less than 25 dollars in any wartime nation. Courageous leadership is absolutely necessary if the nation is to be saved from economic ruin and total loss of social consciousness...
...call General Johnson a "flush Bourbon," a "cracked phonograph record," a "political corpse," a "prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province to classify myself with the eleven faithful Apostles. I am content to leave that to the justice of history...
...unable to carry big enough bombs to hurt the Aver off much. The "pure Greeks" of the mainland were loyal to the Government but apathetic. And the Government command was divided between Tsaldaris' two formidable partners, wily Monarchist John Metaxas, Minister without portfolio, and a rough-&-ready soldier, General George Kondylis, Minister of War, who promptly took charge in the field and had himself promoted to Field Marshal...
...MONKEYS HAVE No TAILS in ZAMBOANGA - Capt. S. P. Meek - Morrow ($2). Soldier stories of tropical U. S. Army posts; second-rate Kiplingesque...