Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initiated to drama. At two, he was kidnaped by Italian brigands?his parents were visiting Naples?and redeemed for £25, a sound investment. At 15, he ran away from school to be an actor, but he was sent back to his Aristophanes and Virgil. He became instead a soldier, a clerk, a barrister, and to all outward appearances...
...then rejected as too frank by the editor of another and more right-minded, publication. It good naturedly, but without palliation, stud- ies the activities of our twentieth century pensioners. One understands why the editor of a national magazine might reject It--but, if one has been a soldier, one realizes that Mr. Caxton speaks with authority. It is time that reminiscences of this sort were circulated, as it is to the Advocate's credit, and the discredit of American journalism at large, that what is the first of a series that will undoubtedly multiply with the years, makes...
Later on, it appeared that the agonies of the elderly princess were quite unnecessary. The soldier was no cardsharper but a clever commoner who had devised this means of punishing the young princess for being cruel to him-a means also of exhibiting the soothing power of wickedness upon recalcitrant women. In the last act it appears that the soldier has triumphed upon the lady who insulted him in the first. Though she pleads with him not to go away, he has become arrogant now and leaves her though he loves...
Plastered in Paris. Guffaws will grow among those people who pronounce it "moom pitcher," who view this bad piece about a kleptomaniac ex-soldier at the American Legion convention in Paris. The star is Sammy Cohen, cast as Samuel Nosenbloom...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Theodore Borutski, onetime German soldier, owner of an iron cross, stated that he wished to change his last name to Roosevelt. Not in honor of famed Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Borutski wished his name to be Quentin Roosevelt in honor of the son of famed Theodore Roosevelt, aviator who was killed by Germans in France. To France, Theodore Borutski wished to send his iron cross that it might be laid together with a wreath upon the grave of Quentin Roosevelt...