Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room were about 1,000 guests. The men were clad in brilliant uniforms, bemedaled and bedecorated. The ladies, in a riot of gorgeous color, provided a spectacle more brilliant than any witnessed since 1914. At 9:30 o'clock in the evening, the King, in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Life Guards, and the Queen, draped in a gown of silver tissue, entered the Throne Room. The band struck up God Save the King. Their Majesties stopped; upon the conclusion of the anthem, His Majesty made a curt nod of acknowledgment and took his place with...
Second Court. At the Second Court, the King appeared in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards. Queen Mary wore a dress of pale gold lamé, ornamented with diamonds. On her head she wore a brilliant coronet of emeralds and diamonds and around her neck were priceless jewels, the most conspicuous of which was the carved Indian emerald presented to her at the Durbar...
...Denton Pinkstone French was born in Kent of Irish parents. He began his career at an early age by joining the Navy, in which his father was a captain. Four years later, he transferred to the Army, joined the 19th Hussars. He rose steadily to the rank of a colonel, retired at the age of 41, an officer without distinction. He was fished out of the half-pay pool by General Sir George Luck to write a cavalry book, which was subsequently called "a masterpiece of lucid explanation and terse precision." His literary ability had undoubtedly saved him from obscurity...
...executive of the Hudson Motor Car Co. Probable Chairman of the Board is Harold H. Emmons, automotive man of equal standing and one of the fathers of the Liberty motor. Clement M. Keys, President of the famed Curtiss Airplane Co., is to be Chairman of the Executive Committee. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henderson (TIME, Nov. 3), in charge of the U. S. Air Mail, is to resign after July 1 and become General Operations Manager. The directorate includes such men as Marshall Field III of Chicago, Stuyvesant Fish of Manhattan, William A. Rockefeller (grandson of the late brother of John Davison...
...Married. Colonel James A. Logan, unofficial participant in the preparation of the Experts' Plan, to Mrs. LeGrand C. Griswold; in Manhattan...