Word: cavalryman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense of what a "cavalryman"' mounted on his mechanical steed experiences during a charge, Correspondents Webb Miller (U. P.) and Harold Denny (New York Times) rode together in one of the B. E. F.'s fast, small tanks. Mr. Miller got a banged leg, Mr. Denny a sense of awe and seaksickness as they joggled cross-country on rubber-padded perches within their little juggernaut...
Exception is taken to the phrase "one cavalryman with brains" used in describing France's able General Weygand, in your issue of September...
...later running over the borders for home*; to the Ruhr to try to squeeze reparations out of the Germans; to Syria to quell the Druses and give ancient Damascus its first organized street-sweeping service. From 1931 to 1935 he commanded the armies of France, for he was one cavalryman with brains, the "spiritual son" of the great Foch...
Since the measure of a newspaper columnist's worth nowadays seems to be the amount of time he devotes to the radio, the old cavalryman's advent on the air was accepted by his friends as proof that he had journalistically arrived. Simultaneously United Feature proudly announced that it had sold him to his 49th paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer...
...MAKING or A HERO-Nicholas Ostrovski-Dutton ($2.50). Fast-moving autobiographical novel about a Red cavalryman in the Russian civil war; the author dictated the story while blind and paralyzed, died soon after...