Word: trooper
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...Brian, who established a reputation in musical comedy and operetta in such productions as "Buddies," "No Nanette," "The Chocolate Soldier," more recently in "Merry Widow," is confronted with the somewhat difficult of portraying the unsuccessful small time trooper and of enunciating, as convincingly as possible, the trite old them that no real actor can ever leave theatre. Considering the difficulties, portrayal of your true "down and outer is well done. He has achieved this beaten, despairing air which is typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard...
...seem queer now, but in the old days men fought on horseback. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart was one of the best of them. When the Civil War began he was 27, a regular U. S. cavalry officer, six years out of West Point. When a Yankee trooper's bullet brought him down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good...
...disciplinarian, but he was also ''a social type, loving people, laughing much, leading out in song. He had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry, affected anagrams. There was never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife seldom; when they brought him into...
...Allen: "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." Thus fell Fort Ticonderoga for the first time (it was recaptured later by the Brit ish) and thus Ethan Allen made his fame as a Continental trooper. More important than the 48 soldiers taken prisoner was the capture of 100 cannon with great stores of ammunition which, the following year, helped General Washington drive Lord Howe from Boston...
...Stony Point, N. Y., State Trooper Arthur Kley gave chase to Evelyn McMillan who, when arrested for speeding, asserted that she had mistaken his uniform for the regalia of a cowboy, had feared an assault...