Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unknown Soldier! However can I make that right with you? ... I will myself do the best I can to settle my account. ... I renounce war because of what it does to our men. ... I renounce it because of what it forces us to do to the enemy. ... I renounce it and never again will I be in another war. '-'I stimulated raiding parties to their murderous tasks. Do you see why I want to make it personal? I lied to the Unknown Soldier about a possible good consequence of the war. . . . The support I gave...
Winding up its season this afternoon on Soldier Field, the rugby team will meet the French Rugby Club of New York, at 2.30 o'clock. The game will be the second between the two teams, Harvard having won the first contest...
...struggling to preserve its Presbyterianism, establish free trade with the English colonies, seat her peers in the House of Lords. But in a lonely castle on Maxwelton's hillside the year's real problem was a pretty, dark-eyed girl who fancied she loved a rakish soldier. The girl was Annie Laurie. The soldier, one Willie Douglas of Fingland, wrote verses to her, offered to lay himself "doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich...
...father, brother, mother and fortune, still brings merriment to confirmed Savoyards. William Danforth adds one more Gilbert-&-Sullivan characterization to his long list with the part of the stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable company. The Chocolate Soldier. A charming, melodious newcomer named Bernice Claire has just the right, light touch when she bids the comic craven, Bummerli, "Come, come, naught can efface you" in Strauss's appealing "Hero" song. The hero, who would rather eat candy than fight, is alternately Donald Brian or Charles Purcell, the revival...
ACCORDING to the best accountancy figures, it costs about $25,000 to kill a soldier during the World War. There is one class of Big Business Men in Europe that never rose up to denounce the extravagance of its governments in this regard -- to point out that when death is left unhampered as an enterprise for the individual initiative of gangsters the cost of a single killing seldom exceeds $100. The reason for the silence of these Big Business Men is quite simple: the killing is their business. Armaments are their stock in trade; governments are their customers; the ultimate...