It’s in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that “ way leads on to way.” Roosevelt’s veto and paid the veterans their bonus nine years early. In 1936, -Congress overrode President Franklin D. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. “Tramps and hobos and (…) something called ‘ the bonus army’.”īonus Army was the popular name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers – 17,000 U.S. I know there are/were racist groups in New England but I think King may have invented this “Legion of White Decency” name. I can’t find proof of the Legion of White Decency existing under this name in New England. “Most of the history books talk more about the KKK than they do about the Legion of White Decency, and a lot of people don’t even know there was such a thing.” And never attaching it to “fool.” I guess this has just gone out of style since the 1980s (?). From context in both, the “d” just seems to stand for “damn.” I’ve heard people shorten swears and curses (“eff that”, etc) but never for the word damn. In the Southern United States, the word used is hoecake, although this can also refer to cornbread fried in a pan.Ī similar line was used in William March’s Company K (note ) (“I’m a ‘dee’ fool and haven’t two brains to knock together” p.115). A modern johnnycake is fried cornmeal gruel, which is made from yellow or white cornmeal mixed with salt and hot water or milk, and sometimes sweetened. Possibly another name for johnnycake (journey cake, shawnee cake, johnny bread), a commercial flatbread. “Possum pies with hoecakes spread around her.”
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The TV series, Under the Dome, also written by King, had outdoor scenes filmed in Burgaw.
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The 1985 movie Silver Bullet, based on King’s Cycle of the Werewolf, had outdoor scenes filmed in Burgaw. The population was 3,872 at the 2010 census. “I was born and grew up in Burgaw, North Carolina.”īurgaw is a town in Pender County, North Carolina. (I really don’t know.)įrom context, eighty-nines refer to boots but I can’t find any use of this slang.
most likely means Office of Director (?). (…) Lemme see the soles of your eighty-fucking-nines!’ ” “ ‘Stow your gear, and get your asses over to the O.D.
He resigned from the service shortly afterward. Later that year, he was court-martialed for insubordination after accusing Army and Navy leaders of an “almost treasonable administration of the national defense” for investing in battleships instead of aircraft carriers. He antagonized many administrative leaders of the Army with his arguments and criticism and, in 1925, was returned to his permanent rank of colonel due to his insubordination. After the war, he was appointed deputy director of the Air Service and began advocating increased investment in air power, believing that this would prove vital in future wars.
Mitchell served in France during World War I and, by the conflict’s end, commanded all American air combat units in that country. William Lendrum “Billy” Mitchell (1879-1936) was a United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force. In Washington, Billy Mitchell had been courtmartialed and demoted to flying a desk because his gadfly insistence on trying to build a more modern air force had finally irritated his elders enough for them to slap him down hard. Latin: So many terrible things I saw, and in so many of them I played a great part.
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