Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal train sped from Burgas to Sofia, word was flashed round the world that while passing through the village of Manola, the royal car was fired at by unidentified assassins?seven shots, which wounded one Bulgarian soldier, splintered the rifle stock of another...
Illinois. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for the Senate, lost the support of Chicago's Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson (see page 17). Police riot squads had to be summoned to handle the crowds that turned out to hear James Hamilton Lewis, her Democratic opponent, at Soldier Field...
...saturation point. As a loose-jointed account of how life went on for a group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse convinces, yet it is only superficially, and therefore at times offensively, gruesome. Just one moment like that in All Quiet on the Western Front, when the soldier whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent...
When he was surgeon general of the orthopedic section of the American Expeditionary Forces' medical service, he noted a strange coincidence. Many a shell-broken soldier lay unattended in the fields until his lacerations were alive with maggots. Every one should have died of blood poisoning. But, remarkably, many recovered quickly...
...regular U. S. cavalry officer, six years out of West Point. When a Yankee trooper's bullet brought him down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good man to write about Jeb Stuart. He has done a good...