[Ads-l] guts and glory

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not in OED.

Surprising that the earliest exx. are not movie-related.

1937 John Franklin Carter _The Rectory Family_ (N.Y.: Coward-McCann) 158:
Once, old Mr. Stocking, who...had fought in the Battle of Gettysburg came
over and told us what it had been like. He was a tall man with a
flowing white beard and a mild blue eye, and he gave us no guts-and-glory
talk. He told us how he and a bunch of other men had hidden behind a stone
wall and been scared to death and then had got up and fired at a lot of
other men.

1939 _N.Y. Post_ (Oct. 30) 15: Mr. [Vardis] Fisher,... in "Children of
God," has told a guts-and-glory tale of indomitable pioneers who could not
be downed by starvation, murder, persecution, famine and plague.

1942 _Arkansas Gazette_ (Little Rock) (Nov. 15)  18: With Guns and Guts and
Glory - It Will Make You Fighting Mad! ...It's raining STEEL, but they take
it! WAKE ISLAND Brian Donlevy Robert Preston.

1944 _Detroit Times_ (Feb. 12) 22: JAP BRUTALITY, DEPRAVITY AVENGED...BY
THE GUTS AND GLORY GUYS - FIRST TO LAND - FIRST TO FIGHT!  Battle Cry of
Action! Supercharging The Blood! Fiery Smashing Drama!  GUNG HO! Starring
Randolph Scott.

1947 _Daily Alaska Empire_ (Juneau) (Feb. 8) 5:  Ablaze with
Guns...Guts...and Glory! YOU HAD TO BE FAST ON THE DRAW...to keep your land
or your woman. Randolph Scott in ABILENE TOWN.

Etc., etc.


JL
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