Word: cavalryman
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...native princes, at their discretion, private armies (each with their British "advisers") of about 40.000 more. And there is a police force of 20,000 men trained to arms. Commander-in-Chief of the army in India is handsome, grey-haired General Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode. As a cavalryman, he was serving in Burma the year young Rudyard Kipling published Barrack-room Ballads. Under General Sir Edmund Allenby he commanded the 20th Army Corps at the capture of Jerusalem. In 1928 he became Chief of the Indian General Staff, in 1930 succeeded Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood...
...keep this out of the newspapers." But Baron von Mumm rallied and gave promise of recovering, just as he survived after Mrs. Marie Van Rensimer Barnes shot him in 1912 in her Paris apartment; just as he survived the wounds of Russian bullets when he was a German cavalryman in the War. (He would not serve against the French because France had been his adopted home.) The dashing Baron came to the U. S. in 1910 as a pilot of the French entry in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. He met Frances Scoville, daughter of a Seneca, Kan. banker...
Before William was ready to go to an English University, the War broke out. After long and useless attempts to make him into a cavalryman, he seems to have had a pretty good time as a staff officer in Petrograd and Siberia. He got along well with generals, and his poly-glottism came in handy. When the Russian Revolution ruined Gerhardi pere, the family stayed hard up for years; William went through Oxford on £1000. his demobilization bonus. There he looked about him with a quietly superior eye and wrote most of his first book, Futility, which...
...mechanically-minded medical students approached their school bearing in triumph a large wooden catapult with which they intended to cobblestone the police. The police, in their tightly belted, skirtlike green-grey capes, charged before the catapult could be set up. There was a fusillade of shots. A Civil guard cavalryman was killed. A messenger boy delivering football tickets 100 yards down the street was severely wounded. Two days later Madrid students attempted a march on the Royal Palace, led by dozens of shouting, excited girls. Police, with Spanish gallantry kept their swords sheathed, thumped the girls' heads with rubber clubs...
Author of this startling play is the late Hans Chlumberg, an Austrian cavalryman during the War. On the night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece...