Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against Miss Daniels, the matter becomes more difficult-if you take your movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital "R". It is all rather amusing, however, and much better than a great deal...
Twelve Thousand. Everyone knows that the web of history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign war...
...failure of the rebellion was the beginning of a tragic and surprising war; battles were fought under the smoky sky, fugitives hid in the soft stillness of the mountains. A succession of dark generals led their ebony soldiers to cruel and bewildering victories. Ugly Toussaint, who beat a Napoleonic army, was captured and sent far away to die. Clumsy Jean Jaques Dessalines made himself emperor of the black island and imported two ballet masters to teach him how to dance; before he had time to learn, a soldier murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time...
After the Civil War he was appointed Indian Agent. But by that time he had lost his health; was broke and lonely. He died before...
Author Vestal finds Kit a bit tiresome. Readers will find Author Vestal tiresome for too much apologizing. Kit had courage, needs no excuses. Author Vestal also has an irritating habit of breaking into an Indian war cry, "Wagh...