Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the papers had time to print them the revolt was over. Troops came on the double, set up machine guns on the avenues around the building. Revolver drawn. Sergeant Major Rizo Patron tramped into the palace with a squad of soldiers...
...Sergeant A. L. Dynam who was in charge said, "There are plenty of no-parking signs along the street. Any-how the cars were parked too far away from the curb and Quincy, St. must remain open for the fire engines to come through...
...touch of surprising realism was contributed by a Sergeant Saito, composing his verse in an Army hospital...
That war morale among the Children of the Rising Sun may not be quite that bright is strongly hinted in a Japanese war diary, not yet published in English, called Wheat and Soldiers, written by Sergeant Ashibei Hino. In it Japanese readers got their first realistic, human picture of fighting in China-a day-to-day account of thirst, hunger, homesickness; of no heroes, but plain men fighting desperately for their lives. And between the lines was something that looked suspiciously like anti-war sentiment...
...story of Gunga Din, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and made into a screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant...