Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display of sentiment, we endeavour to conceal our real feelings towards such a calling as the soldier's by being flippant about it - cracking jokes on the subject - jokes about red tape, brass-hats, bully beef, and serjeant-majors. All of which is harmless enough in its way...
Economically independent conscripts are asked not to swank: "Let every soldier, whoever he is, try to make his pay and rations suffice. In this way we shall arrive not only at equality of status but equality of service...
...merely to ask for an interview with his officer (through the medium of a Serjeant or other non-commissioned officer) and it will be granted at once. Finally, in action, his officer never asks a soldier to go anywhere he himself is not prepared to lead the way. Such traditions as these are the pride of the British Army, and the envy of every other...
...King and Queen waved their farewell; the Queen was almost invisible behind the high railing until something was brought for her to stand on. On Chebucto Head a great smelly bonfire of wood, oil and old tires, visible for 80 miles, was built to cheer them on their way. But for a brief stop at St. John's, capital of Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony, a week of unbroken rest was ahead. Besides the King and Queen, the roomy old ship carried only 58 passengers-all members of the Royal party. At St. John's the King...
...where their children, Queen Mary and the Cabinet will be waiting at the station. In the is-minute procession to Buckingham Palace the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will ride in the open landau with their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside the Houses of Parliament to cheer. State business-discussions with the Prime Minister of the international situation, rearmament, and the date of the general election, ceremonies and a speech at the Guildhall -must come before the well-deserved vacation...