Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler camps for young people. These provide good wholesome food, exercise which varies from dancing on the greensward to building roads, and periods of recreation after hours during which a surprising number of children are conceived. Nazi officials mostly figure that the important thing for soldier-seeking Germany is more and healthier births, to the exclusion of bothering about a dowry, a church wedding or even a civil marriage. This view was made official at Berlin last week as 20,000 members of the German Many Children League harkened to Dr. Robert Ley, führer of the Nazi Labor...
Many a friendly shade haunts the pages of Housemaster: P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, James Hilton's Mr. Chips himself. Author Ian Hay (John Hay Beith), a schoolmaster who turned soldier when his king & country called, wrote Britain's first War best-seller (The First Hundred Thousand), has written 22 books, all of them displaying a school- masterly healthy mind. His latest, a cheery tale of big doings at an English boys' school, is served up cool but crisp, with a slight sogginess inside, like British toast. Housemaster should please the large U. S. audience of Anglophiles...
Over from Brooklyn Navy Yard came U. S. Rear Admiral Harris Laning to make a little speech. Up from Washington came British Captain F. C. Bradley, R. N. to make another. These seadogs found no technical flaw in Soldier Clegg's work, for Soldier Clegg had with great accuracy noted on the spot every shell splash, turret and barbette...
...orders came, worked most of the night at his quarry and did odd jobs around the house, then caught the last train out of Lille. It was months before his family learned that the train had been attacked by Uhlans and Jean killed. Fannie, his wife, had a German soldier billeted in her cottage, and at last, because it seemed the natural thing to do. she let him take her husband's place. Then the German went to the trenches to be killed, and when Fannie bore his baby the village was willing to let her starve. Jean...
Aside from these utilitarian aspects of the situation, Dick Harlow has carved a place for himself at Soldier's Field which no one else could fill. Always a genial, philosophic personality, he has the knack of making people wish to work for him. Crimson football players and fans are uniformly grateful for that continuity of purpose which has influenced Coach Harlow to remain in Cambridge...