Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seventh, Iron Man, a soon-to-be-published prize-ring story. Almost 100,000 people have bought Little Caesar. So Author Burnett is no longer a part-time novelist. At his ease in Tombstone, Ariz., he is working full-time on an eighth novel, about a U. S. soldier in the Southwest...
...ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year, and had a remarkable vocabulary of bad language before she was three. . . . The only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons than the obvious one. The soldiers said: "She'll die in her shoes, like the rest of us. . . . Let's drink to . . . the black eyes of Julie...
Annulled. The marriage of General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, famed Italian soldier-of-fortune, and Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, Manhattan socialite; in Nyack, N. Y. Reason: argument over the legality of Mrs. Garibaldi's divorce (Mexican) from her first husband, Stevenson Pierce Taylor...
...filmcraft. A farmer who falls in love with a young girl gets his son to marry her so as to bring her to his house. While his son is in the army he rapes his daughter-in-law and has a child by her, which precipitates tragedy when the soldier-son comes home. Inside this gloomy framework dances the life of the lovely Russian countryside. You see how the people get married, do their work, say hello and goodbye. The Soviet propaganda is reduced to a little dose at the very end. Best shots: dressing the bride; the lecherous servant...
...John Singer Sargent's talents are often flayed by modern estbetes who believe much of his painting is mere pomp and polish. Last week the undergraduate editors of the Harvard Crimson assailed Artist Sargent from another angle. Discussing his martial murals (one of which shows a U. S. soldier standing on a prostrate German) in the Widener Library they said: "Critics have shown them to be indefensible on grounds esthetic: War posters raised to the rank of mural decoration. But it is not their ugliness which would trouble the sensitive visitor. . . . [They] are out of place as the symbols...