Word: cavaliere
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Scent of Cloves is a lady's view of the time of Cromwell, and if Cromwell had been a lady, the view might have been true enough. As it is, it tells a Cinderella story of little Julia Ashley, who is encountered competing with Irish pigs for some swill...
*He owns 31% of Plymouth Oil Co. (assets: $90 million), is the man behind Penn-Ohio Gas Co., Melben Oil Co., Republic Pipe Line Co., Cavalier Oil Co., Bentex Oil Co., half a dozen others with combined assets of well in the hundred millions. He is also the biggest stockholder...
The depicted episodes of Rommel's career only demonstrate the stern yet cavalier character the public expects in a military hero, and leave his brilliance unsung. They are held together by the conflict between his professional conscience and personal consciousness. Rommel, who believed, "My function in life...to carry out...
This book might have borrowed its title more appropriately from Noel Coward's World War II ditty, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans...
But Gomulka had his chance to get tough with the Russians a few weeks later when Moscow took umbrage at his cavalier firing of Marshal Rokossovsky. A delegation of the Soviet Party Presidium came flying into Warsaw and Khrushchev stepped out, arms flailing, shouting insults at the Poles. Gomulka was...