Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another duty of the Plebe, an important one, is that of delivering the mail after the noon and evening meals. The "mail dragger" has a sad job. He is pestered by each man who always wants his mail as soon as it comes, and cannot wait until it is brought to his room...
...feeling aroused by John Brown's raid resulted in a number of serious fights, and, although the authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long in the annals of war and of fame. But the "Lost Cause" was indeed lost and after 1865 life at West Point returned somewhat to normal...
...used as a noun to mean an unpleasant task, and as a verb to mean "to inconvenience." It started back in the dim ages when officers' wives used to give evening parties where the poor military guests suffered in garotte collars weighed down with gold trolley cable. It soon came to be said that anything unpleasant was as bad as a "soiree." From this one can see readily the evolution of the word to its present meaning. Other expressions such as "Sammy," "spoony," "B.J.," and "B.S." have developed from just as obscure origins...
...stretchers. Some of the wounded were noisy but most were quiet. The wind blew the leaves in the bower over the door of the dressing station and the night was getting cold. Stretcher bearers came in all the time, put their stretchers down, unloaded them and went away. As soon as I got to the dressing station Manera brought a medical sergeant out and he put bandages on both my legs. He said there was so much dirt blown into the wound that there had not been much hemorrhage...
...commonplaces as a fight by means of skillful photography; and his shots of the naturally more promising trapeze acts are excellent. For about two-thirds of the film the emotional moments are smoothly presented, with the gaps in slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins, and the Movietone records Charles Morton's body-shaking sobs as short, shrill, barks, the screen sadness produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet Gaynor's voice and the generally superior acting of the cast...