Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first sentence sounds Lawrence's theme: "God, this is awful." Then he settles down to prove it with explicit descriptions of the hardships of barracks life and phonographic reproductions of the unqualified filth of his fellow-soldiers' speech. Most of the recruits had been taken off the dole, some were demoralized down-and-outers, a few were petty criminals who had escaped punishment by joining the Air Force. Even readers less puritanical than Lawrence may feel that he fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company...
...Private soldier...
...character that he is dramatically to be, which is completely destructive of his own personality. Walter Huston has not, as some lesser man might do, keyed himself up to the heights of affected stiffness, in order to play Shakespeare. In the opening scenes he is the reserved, resolute soldier, quietly affable, that Othello is meant to be. As Iago progresses in his corrosive work, Othello is made by the master actor, through the episodes of the fictitious night in the camp and the handkerchief show and so forth, imperceptibly to advance his jealous disintegration, until...
...attacks on M. Salengro have rehearsed, week after week, assertions that during the War he, as a French soldier and cyclist dispatch rider, deserted to the enemy. This was rammed home by Gringoire with endless cartoons of "Cyclist Salengro" (see cuts) and by this tag the Minister was nightly mocked by comedians in Paris music halls. Friends of M. Salengro said that a "Commission of Honor" headed by the Chief-of-Staff, General Marie Gustave Gamelin, recently investigated his War record and cleared him of desertion. Enemies cracked back that General Gamelin did not head an official Commission of Honor...
...attempt an autobiography, John Gordon Baragwanath gives an "autobiographical minimum" that is so interesting readers are likely to regret he did not add more to it. Son of the pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Manhattan, he was inspired to study mining engineering by Richard Harding Davis' Soldiers of Fortune. Young Baragwanath sailed for Ecuador as soon as he got out of college, hoping to emulate Davis' hero who "figures heroically in South American revolutions, had amorous encounters with spitfire senoritas and was generally in vincible." He waxed his mustache, got into the Ecuadorian cavalry...