Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doors are opened and in sweeps Black Rod, proceeds to the Speaker's Chair, executing en route three magnificent bows which wring continuous mirth from the Commons. Black Rod, having arrived in front of the Speaker's Chair, informs the Speaker that "this honorable House" is commanded to attend His Majesty in the Senate. He departs. The Speaker, clad in knee-breeches, silk stockings, patent leather shoes complete with large silver buckles and wearing a sweeping black gown and large three-cornered hat, stands up, walks down the steps leading to his Chair and leads the surging Commons...
...Dardanelles. After the failure of that ill-fated expedition, he commanded the 17th Army Corps and afterwards, until 1917, the Canadian Corps. From that moment he became a Canadian hero and it was under his command that the Canadian troops covered themselves with immortal glory at Vimy Ridge. It was mainly because of his great popularity with Canadian soldiers of all ranks and with the people in the great Dominion that he was appointed to succeed the Duke of Devonshire, in 1921, as Governor-General of Canada. In 1917, he ceased to be directly in command of the Canadian Corps...
Major General C. P. Summerall, who is in command of the Area in his letter to Mr. L. E. Stoddard, chairman of the United States Polo Association stated that it would be impossible for the army to hold the tournament again because of the limited facilities at Fort Hamilton. Major General Summerall further said that "if college polo be only a college sport without any military benefits perhaps the United States Polo Association would be better fitted to organize and sponsor such an intercollegiate association than the army." Collegiate polo is well advanced, Major General Summerall thinks, and further military...
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet-philosopher, arrived in Milan to tell the Italians that Europe is troubled with a lack of love, that peace is something spiritual that grows in the heart and cannot be forced by command. At Turin his arrival was anticipated with much joy, but the hopeful Romani were bitterly disappointed ; for their municipal authorities (which of course means Premier Benito Mussolini) declared that Tagore's doctrines smacked unwholesomely of Communism...
...thus: GIFFORD, 40, HEADS BIGGEST UTILITY COMPANY (New York Times) ; W. S. GIFFORD ELECTED HEAD OF A. T. & T. Co. (New York Herald-Tribune). If he knew this, it seemed to cause him neither amusement nor annoyance. He meditated, perhaps, on the fact that he had at his direct command more such girls than any other man alive. He was Mr. Gifford, new president of the American Telephone & Telegraph...