Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War many an able soldier suffered from "shell shock." After hours of bombardment men would become madly hysterical. Exploding shells would throw men through the air or bury them under debris. Afterwards, many with no outward sign of injury would be paralyzed or gibbering. The mystifying aspect of "shell shock" was that the functional disturbance was often in a part of the body far from the obvious injury. Pathologists eventually found that the nerves governing the disturbed part usually were subtly distorted. Recovery from shell shock was slow. Many a case still persists, 13 years after...
...Magnificent Lie (Paramount) is a tediously sentimental picture which for six reels endeavors to strain pathos out of a situation too peculiar to be sad in the first place. The situation is that of a soldier who, 13 years after the War, is still romantically devoted to a French actress named Duchene, because she once patted his head when he was in a hospital. When Duchene visits the U. S., he goes to see her act and to give her a bunch of camelias. In the middle of her play he goes blind. Practical jokesters later persuade a cabaret girl...
...stranger training to be the mainstay of a republic than Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was born in Posen (now part of Poland), on Oct. 2 1847 and brought up as a perfect little Junker. His father had been a soldier, all his ancestors were soldiers: no other career was considered for him. He never spoke to his father without snapping to attention. When he was three or four he had for a nurse an ancient harridan who had served as a canteen woman in the Napoleonic wars. When little Paul so far forgot himself...
...other was George Clinton, revolutionary soldier, seven times Governor of his State, twice Vice President...
Robert E. Lee's cavalry general was James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, killed at Yellow Tavern in the last days of the war, but when somebody asked Lee at Appomattox who was the greatest soldier under his command, Lee answered, "A man I have never seen, sir. His name is Forrest...