Word: barrack-room
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...grossly fat, loose-lipped and emitting sprays of saliva. And above all, there was Kipling the young star, who, after seven years as a journalist in India, dazzled London in 1890 at the age of 24. This is the Kipling who in one astounding year wrote most of his Barrack-Room Ballads, the novel The Light That Failed and seven short stories...
...Greece at the time of the arrests and was not charged). On the third try, the prosecution said. Panaghoulis gave a seemingly friendly guard detailed written instructions, including advice to spike a colleague's orangeade with sleeping tablets and to collect the guns of other guards ("If any barrack-room orderly sees you taking them, say that you are playing a practical joke"). When the appointed night arrived, Lady Fleming decided it was unwise to use her own car, called Skelton and asked him to rent a car "to drive someone somewhere." Unsuspecting, Skelton obliged. After a leisurely dinner...
...with extinction in China. The party ideological journal Kommunist declared that Mao's policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...
...paid out on Monday, not a dog soljer no more," exults a barrack-room ballad in From Here to Eternity. But a few days later, his mustering-out pay gone, his new-found freedom turned sour, the pre-Pearl Harbor infantryman in James Jones's novel surrenders to The Re-Enlistment Blues and signs...
...Hemingway manner work? Paraphrasing the remark Churchill is supposed to have made to his son Randolph ("Haven't you learned yet that I put more into my speeches than brandy?"), Papa Hemingway might well remind young (30) Novelist Hoffman that more goes into a Hemingway novel than just barrack-room talk...