Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty-eight years ago in an obscure village of Szechwan Province in southwest China, a modestly well off Chinese couple was blessed with a manchild, hope and pride of every Chinese home. He was given the name of Chang Shan-tse ("Good Fellow"). Five years later the mother, yielding to her small son's plea for playmates, secured for him three vigorous tiger cubs with which the infant not only played, but slept...
...that Repton boys, to escape townee snickers when they left the school grounds, enveloped themselves in mackintoshes even on the hottest days. Repton's new uniform, still to be designed, will be "made up so as to allow greater freedom and less to divide the Reptonian from his fellow countrymen...
This revolutionary announcement brought many a "Hear! Hear!" from Reptonians (who said a fellow looked a bit of a chump walking over the Derbyshire moors in black-and-stripes), but startled Britain's other public schools. When a reporter for London's Daily Mail visited Eton to break the news, he found Etonians horrified at the suggestion that they change their traditional garb...
While his fellow writers fled San Francisco to die in obscurity and in exile, found religions in New Jersey swamps, become monks, build roads, brood bitterly over their frustration, Poet Miller went back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...
Emilio Lussu (Road to Exile) describes a year's Alpine campaign (1916-17). He describes two mutinies, devotes little space to actual fighting, writes mainly of personalities, is most effective on the salty subject of his fellow officers. General Piccolomini, lecturing to his staff on Coordination of Intellects, proved by irrefutable logic that a semicircular excavation on a nearby mound was a machine-gun emplacement. An adjutant major ventured to suggest that the general was wrong. "Oh. What is it, then?" sneered the general. "It's a latrine...