Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty years ago, a cruel Indian chief named Geronimo was at the head of the Apaches in Southern Arizona. His desperate soldiers killed many a paleface, scalped many a miner howling with despair and fury, and rode away, across the prairie. At last a U. S. regiment fought Geronimo's men, and beat them. Most of the Indians were captured. Those who were not one afternoon rode their little ponies slowly across the border into Mexico, up the steep trails into the mountains, and fortified a camp...
...Gorheim, in the principality of Hohenzollern, faltered one morning a timid knock. The monk who answered found a cringing wretch there, broken with years of suffering: He identified himself as a onetime Colonel of the Kaiser's armies, personal friend of the Crown Prince, who had led his regiment gallantly to France. But a sense of guilt for his part in war obsessed him, and now he sought to make penitential amends, following the example of the gentle St. Francis of Assisi...
...good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
...subject "Short Story Writing" Mr. Gallishaw brings to his audience besides an established ability as a writer a varied experience in other fields. For a time an assistant dean of Harvard College when the war broke out he went to Gallipoli as a member of a Newfound land regiment in the British Army Later in the war he fought with the American expeditionary force in France Mr. Gallishaw's wide and colorful back ground should combine with an acknowledged technical skill to make his lecture at 2 o'clock this afternoon attractive for many Vagabonds...
With mercenary indignation, she goes to bed with the Major in a room above the bar. When he comes out of this room, the Major looks over the banisters at tru café, full of the black soldiers of his regiment, drinking and laughing and watching a Senegalese Negro, who, in red breeches, is dancing, with a knife in his hand...