Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...border that charmed Leopold, that man of peace. He spent most of his life directing wars against Louis XIV, but he disliked soldiers, particularly his own, never visited a battlefield, and was embarrassed by maneuvers. The rug hung over his bed in an elaborate and jejune country place to which he retired for meditation and amour. It is said that two violin players, blindfolded with black silk handkerchiefs, fiddled at the head and foot of the bed while he was taking his pleasure. He died in 1705 and the rug passed through the estates of a series of princes. Connoisseurs...
June 5--Reverend Hugh Gordon Ross. Minister of the First Congregational Church. Battlefield. Mass...
...gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with a medical corps. Dutifully the Tulsa steamed out to tidy up the battlefield, found no battlefield to tidy at the spot designated by President Chamorro, returned to Corinto. Subsequent reports declared the battle to have taken place some 30 miles inland...
...came in due course to the attention of Miss Patterson of Milwaukee, a niece of the General. Contending that Colgate & Co. by using her relative's whiskers as a "springboard from which to launch a jocose and humorous sales argument," had obscured the record he won on the battlefield, she took her case to Arnold Furst, Manhattan lawyer. Lawyer Alan Fox will represent Colgate & Co. The two counsels were 'classmates at Yale in 1903, partners in many a college prank...
...what battlefield was General Byng the hero? (See COMMONWEALTH...