Word: war-veteran
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...this well-known tale, twelve princesses escape their castle every night to a fantasyland where they dance until dawn with beloved princes. Their father, the king, offers any of the princesses as a bride to whomever discovers the destination of their nighttime escapades. Only when a ragged war-veteran refuses the soporific wine the princesses serve their guests, and follows them—shielded by the aforementioned invisibility cloak—does he learn their secret and marry the youngest...
Outstanding performance is Bennie Bartlett's as the bad boy who at a crucial moment squirts fire extinguisher fluid out of his pistol into the gangster's eyes. Aged 9, Bartlett, in the Hollywood tradition, supports a mother, an ailing War-veteran father, three small sisters on his salary as a stock contract player...
...early 1920's War-Veteran Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...
Responding to the political demand of minor War-veteran organizations for a cash payment on their Adjusted Service ("Bonus") Certificates as a form of Depression Relief, the Senate Finance Committee last week began hearings on this proposition. Opposed as ever to cashing this Government obligation 15 years before maturity was Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon...
Like an insurance policy, they may be borrowed on, but the following shows where this practice brings the War-veteran...