Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly see the children Bennett had seen playing behind Notre-Dame, the glimpse of Montmartre's tinseled night life, the noisy Place d' Italic with its reek of garlic, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which through Bennett's eyes seemed more futile than impressive...
Sherman never said, "War is hell." What he did say and what he always thought was: "War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." Hard-headed soldier, he defined military fame: "To be killed on the field of battle and have our names spelled wrong in the newspapers." Like his good friend Ulysses Simpson Grant a failure in civil life. William Tecumseh Sherman thrived on civil war. Like the old soldier in the song, he "simply faded away" (it took him 25 years) into the most sought-after speaker and diner-out of his generation...
Sherman knew he was a good soldier, but he thought Grant was better. He once said to a friend: "Wilson, I'm a damned sight smarter man than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does, but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell...
...Author-Arnold Zweig is one of the postWar, German-Jewish writers (others: Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Ludwig. Franz Werfel) who have made present-day German letters something for smart U. S. publishers to conjure with. Professorial-looking, no friend of war, he was not raised to be a soldier but a professor. Some five universities, years of study in philosophy, languages. French and English literature, graduated him to pick & shovel work in a Labor Corps. Like his hero Bertin he sweated his spectacles steamy in Macedonia, Serbia, northern France, spent 13 months at Verdun before he settled down on the Eastern...
...plus bed & board. The Treaty of St. Germain, they added bitterly, deprived Austria of all seaports and consequently of her Navy, reduced her Army to 30,000 men (including officers) and limited her "heavier armaments" to 450 machine guns, 60 trench mortars and 90 field guns & howitzers. Each Austrian soldier is permitted to have a gun, but the nation's stock of bullets is limited...