Word: trooper
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...caught up is the picture in its own hysteria, that it overlooks the fact that the pastor never fights. Not once did he even strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...
...cars whisked over the eight miles of the Albany Post Road, past the Hudson, grey-blue through the autumn leaves, past filling stations, hot-dog stands, fat-looking farms, to the grey-blue fieldstone walls of the ancestral Roosevelt acres, through trooper-guarded iron gates, and up the half-mile lane of maple trees...
...this week the Sixth (60 officers, 1,132 men) showed what a newfangled horse outfit could do in maneuvers in Louisiana; and the lean troopers of the Fourth, now about three-fourths equipped, were doing the same thing in Minnesota. Still to be brought up to strength are eleven more regular Army regiments. Equipped to travel 130 miles in six hours on tires, able to cover 40 miles a day, weeks on end, under their own power, the Army's modern horse outfits have many a spot in the hemisphere they can still call their own. For service...
...SWAN OF USK-Helen Ashton-Macmlllan ($2.50). The life of Henry Vaughan, one of the valuable minor poets of Milton's time, made into a valuable minor novel. Vaughan's boyhood in the Welsh mountains, his life at Oxford and in noisome London, his service as a trooper-surgeon for King Charles in the savage Civil Wars and his later life as a country physician are reconstructed in a sober, ringing prose that suggests the rich style of the 17th Century. Scholar Ashton's battles and amputations make a plausible background for Vaughan's fine devotional...
...asked, "When are we going to have our first parade?" A suggestion from me that he get ready for the parade by putting on a red shirt made him look sick. When I saw how green he turned I gave up hope of marking a storm-trooper out of him. I had been looking for a hero, and I had found...