Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier, with a bayonet through his stomach, is cocked for a back-somersault; another goes out upside down on barbed wire (Last Position at Neuville...
...hundred yards from where the Bordens paddled in is a Turkish powder factory. A Turkish sentry strolled up accompanied by a soldier. They collared Professor Borden and took from him $44. The Bordens scuttled to their rubber boat and paddled away. Soon they struck a sand bar and five Turkish soldiers waded out to nab them. The soldiers took the rest of Professor Borden's money, marched them to a guardhouse where they tore off Mrs. Borden's outer clothing...
Walter Connolly's first venture into cinema (The Soldier's Oath, with William Farnum, in 1917) satisfied him so little that he refused to make another picture for 15 years. Columbia offered him a contract which permits him to act in plays when he chooses. Since 1932 he has appeared in 13 pictures, established himself as one of the three or four actors of his generation capable of carrying a production. He was born in 1888 in Cincinnati where his father was head of the Western Union relay office. After studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin...
...family of Madrid which had fallen on evil days. Miguel left home early to seek his fortune. In Italy he became a Spanish footsoldier, lounged about Rome and Naples in a brilliant uniform with little money in his purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet, and won a slight raise in pay and a permanently maimed left hand...
...with such historical efforts as The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19). Author Lindsay has been more careful to avoid anachronism than unreality, though he has thought it better to tone down the broad King's English of the day. The hero, a grocer's son turned soldier, comes back to his paternal home on London Bridge after a ten-year absence, to find his betrothed wed to an old curmudgeon, to get himself hopelessly entangled with his best friend's fiancée. Luckily for all Jack Cade's rebellion puts a quietus on these...