Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduction. It is an excellent epitome of the quality of the book. Tiresome, Capt. Thompson is not. Nor is he technical to achieve accuracy, although the five hundred page biography is profusely illustrated with diagrams and maps. Too, "Jeb Stuart" is first a portrait of a man and a soldier. Capt. Thompson, it must be admitted is not entirely unbiased, but his leanings toward the Confederacy' are concerned mainly with the gallant group of men about whom he has probably heard all his life. As he says, perhaps the most glamorous of these was Jeb Stuart...
...these things, essentially a human, forceful personality. Fastidious in dress, possessing an excellent voice and sense of humor, and leaving poker and whiskey alone, Stuart was intoxicated with the beauty of Virginia, women and horses. Robert E. Lee said of him, "General Stuart was my ideal of a soldier." Which, according to the tenor of the book, was the one compliment Stuart would have desired...
...wounded. Present but not marching last week in Boston were many battle-maimed U. S. heroes. But the great majority of American Legionaries never saw front-line action, are now unscarred, robust men in the prime of life. Therefore when 70,000 of them get together to play soldier again it is like a gigantic college reunion, gay, colorful, sometimes ribald. Last week hoodlums took advantage of the occasion to overturn motors, build bonfires, fisticuff in the streets. Lo-cal hospitals treated 358 persons for liquor poisoning; one Legionary and his wife died of this cause. Patients were treated...
...monster "testimonial" dinner they were going to give him there he stopped off at Chicago where they had made him guest of honor for the 59th anniversary celebration of the city's Great Fire. State executives and most of the legislature had come up from Springfield. On Soldier Field they took him to "the very heart of the greatest nation on earth, whose hal lowed soil held the remains of the immortal Lincoln...
...principles. A handful of men set themselves as the defenders of the status quo; another handful, the men of convictions, oppose them; and there are always the followers of both camps, the people who make revolution a more inspiring, more honest thing than war. And there are always, too, soldiers of fortune who seek only excitement, who, regardless of issues, fight for either side, and who shift their loyalty with easy convenience. Human strife carries with it many sordid trappings, but none so despicable as the blatant soldier of fortune...