Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frederick William Lawrence wearied of painting with a brush seven years ago. He had won some water color prizes and done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...
...reigned at peace with his subjects, won fame as an intellectual who had studied Marx, Machiavelli, Taine, kept up with modern literature to the extent of being able to enjoy Louis-Ferdinand Celine's grim Journey to the End of the Night. But the War made him a soldier whose kingdom was occupied by the enemy, and peace left him with an exhausted country, a deep distrust of his subjects, a painful inability to make or keep friends, a royal victim of the post-War melancholy that Author d'Ydewalle calls "world-sickness...
...opened, in strode Great Master Connaught to hold the fifth investiture of Knights of the Bath in a hundred years. It was Connaught who in 1913 revived most of the ancient ritual, for decades in abeyance. Theory of the origin of the Bath is that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they swore...
...Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught's little rules, which he scrupulously observes: "No officer may swear in the presence of a superior officer, but he may use 'damn' to a subordinate...
Best story in the book is The Enemy. Sergeant Paschke suddenly realizes that the Russian soldier trapped in the darkness is a human being, decides to give him a chance to surrender, hesitates, is killed for his moment of humanity. His comrade kills the Russian who had considered all German soldiers efficient and unfeeling units of a war machine...