Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover continues to refurbish his badge of integrity, on the approved plan of denouncing Roosevelt. There...
...last months of the Great War the ''doughboy," the "poilu" and the "Tommy'' fought side by side against "Jerry" (also known as "the Boche" and "the Hun"). Of all these warriors only "Tommy" had a last name. Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times, has been serving His or Her Britannic Majesty since post-Waterloo clays. Until the late great Rudyard Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really was underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear...
Robert Graves, onetime Captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, edited his fellow-soldier's book, wrote an appreciative introduction. Private Richards was already a veteran of 15 years' service when Graves, just out of public school, joined the battalion as an officer. With better luck than most veterans (Graves calls it a "20,000 to 1 chance"), Richards fought through the entire War without missing a battle or stopping a bullet. He won two decorations (Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal), was known as "a good man," but never applied for a promotion and never got one. After...
Frank Richards first heard about army life at the bottom of a Welsh coal mine, when his "buttie," an ex-soldier, held forth on the milk & honey that was India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many...
...fitting them into the whole pattern of contemporary events. But this is not a part of the general fad of debunking history for in his true surroundings and with an understanding of his natural abilities and human faults, we cannot fall to appreciate more fully the work of this soldier who was also a mechanical genius and brilliant archaeologist...