Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SACRIFICE-Fritz von Unruh-Knopf ($2.50). Son of a German general, Fritz von Unruh was commissioned in 1916 to write something that would improve regimental morale. When he submitted the manuscript of the present volume the General Staff declared him insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that...
...made his graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who had been killed at Verdun; he made the grating that sur rounds the perpetual fire under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
...shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin, nor those who viewed his efforts. The peasant and his troubles were forgotten when the chance came to show flashes of Lebedew's stock exchange interspersed with glimpses of soldiers in a muddy trench. The hero of the play was really that grotesque animal, the Russian mob: this was frequently seen running about, giving its loud roar. The happy ending of The End of St. Petersburg occurred when the Soviet rule became established...
...Polled 3 to 1 in favor of unbobbed hair for women in a straw vote decorously conducted by the Conservative Evening Standard. In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled...
...Ulcers caused by Vincent's organisms. Trench mouth is one type of this disease...