Word: barracks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unser Anton von Galgotzy hated to write. When he was Austria's Quartermaster-General a Colonel sent him a fourpage document, in triplicate, filled with reasons why he should be supplied with a clock for his barrack square. Unser Anton's reply: "No Money?No Clock...
...send a tingle or two up the royal spine as His Majesty sat reading in the bright cosy library at Sandringham. Glowingly Sir George relates how in the latter years of the War he often heard discontented Tommies complain that the Monarchy was not absolute enough. "The talk in barrack rooms," he writes unctuously, "struck the note of unswerving loyalty not to the Constitution but to the person of the King. . . . It might have been comparatively easy at that moment to set up an absolute Dictatorship...
Poet Rudyard Kipling insulted Queen Victoria with a Barrack Room Ballad. It hailed, "the Widow at Windsor," rollicked that she sent her soldiers to "barbarious wars," bellowed that she had bought " 'alf 'o Creation" with English blood...
...where Stacy lived. Upstairs lived a female person whom he could hear walking, thud, thud, like a shod horse, endlessly to and fro, putting away her laundry out of a package -a year's wash, perhaps. Downstairs in the basement there were two other people-a man named Barrack and a girl he had taken in. This girl had been on the town, but she was pretty. Stacy fell in love with her, fell also for the shod horse abovestairs. He knew his oats, he knew the big-town song-and-dance, the Broadway poker-game; but love...
...Hopkins, the respectable producer, was a little ashamed of the God damns and Jesus Christs in the dialogue, and he apologized in the playbill. . . . Mr. Arthur Krock, who is an editorial companion of the authors on the staff of The New York World, describes their play as a barrack-room ballad. . . .1 thought that Miss Leyla Georgie's characterization of a, frail French girl, skipping gracefully from marine to marine, was a little masterpiece...