Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble to ascertain the facts about his handling of the 1932 Bonus Army. For doing a job well which he was ordered to do, for doing it in person which he need not have done, he has taken a great deal of criticism in silence, like the fine soldier...
...able romanticist in most of his 50 books, an able realist in life. Son of a middle-class preacher, he has many potent friends, few enemies; many abilities, no vices. He has been a lawyer, private secretary to the High Commissioner for South-Africa, justice of the peace, soldier, Wartime director of Information (propaganda), book publisher, director of Reuter's news agency, member of Parliament from the Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King, and has shown a brilliant flair for dishing up heroes...
...Scotland and Sweden were doing him honor, his own Government continued to ignore his Arctic ordeal. Far more interesting to him last week than the memories of 1884 were the New Deal and the exploits of Adolf Hitler. Receiving interviewers at his home in Georgetown, D. C., the old soldier fingered his white brush, remarked: "When you get to be 90, medals don't seem as important as they do when you are younger...
...express draws into the station in Subotica (with the station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they...
...avoid a manage de convenance to a Spanish grandee, disguises herself as a peasant girl and joins a boatload of female emigrants whom the King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying a colonist, Marietta gives the Governor (Frank Morgan) a lurid account of her past. Just when it occurs to the soldier to regard this as fiction, the Spanish Grandee arrives to carry his fiancee back...