Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seville, he had a ride in the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion automobile which Gulf Refining Co. had been driving around Chicago for publicity. Luckily for him, he did not ride at the same time as two of his Graf passengers, Col. William Francis Forbes-Sempill. Master of Sempill, British soldier and flyer; and Charles Dolfuss, attache of the French Air Ministry. Speeding them out to Chicago's airport to rejoin the Graf, the Dymaxion skidded and overturned near Soldier Field, killed its driver Francis T. Turner, badly injured the two passengers...
...terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess, but is unable to insult him. A shell-shocked U. S. soldier horrifies his Italian brothers-in-arms by getting the horrors in public. A little boy with fever lies waiting for death all day because he does not know the difference between Fahrenheit and Centigrade...
...groups of pillboxes, each one a small fort 30 ft. by 36 ft. and rooted 60 ft. deep in earth so that poilus in the lower chamber can rest in comfort. "Comfort," as Marshal Pétain has said, "is of utmost strategic importance. The combative efficiency of the soldier is at least doubled when he can recuperate in comfort." Ergo, nearly every pillbox is equipped with electric lights, electric stove, a well, beds, running water and glistening latrines. On his visit to the forts last August Premier Daladier cried: "The shield is in place! It is of good metal...
...When a children's reader appeared with a flattering but garbled account of his exploit, he resigned from the army, brought his only son up to be a civil servant. Son Trotta, all his life a good official against his will, brought Grandson Trotta up to be a soldier. Grandson Trotta was not cut out for the army. He did his best, but when his part in a duelling scrape got him transferred from the Uhlans to a far-off infantry garrison he began to go downhill. Love affairs, finally drink, became his only interest in life. When...
...thought and research into their consciences. After listening however, to the recital of the enormous war-time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates of the companies in various nations, and of the coy manner in which English arms are used by England's enemies on English soldiers, one feels that the solution to the whole thing is to give every soldier a block of the stock in the major arms company of his country, thus bringing him home rich and satisfying everyone concerned. The authors draw other conclusions; in any case, most will agree that some conclusion...