Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avoided an ''international incident" by pretending that the remark had been addressed to himself. Said he: "We are used to being called names by M. Vaillant Couturier." When the other five-minute harangues were over the Premier moved cloture. . . . Would the Chamber gag itself at his command and get down to business...
There a newsgatherer sat last week as the Marshal reminisced of the days when his title was Generalissimo of the Allied Forces. Puffing slowly at his meerschaum he said: "You know, I never commanded in the way people imagine. What I did was to bring those about me to accept my opinions, which is quite a different thing. . . . To command is nothing. . . . What is necessary always is to get a good understanding with those with whom one has to deal, to understand them and get them to understand you. That is the whole secret, not only of successful command...
...Haig I gave the whole French Army for him to command, thus flattering and stimulating him. I flattered Pershing, too. by telling him how his young American army was full of vigor and force and panting to cover itself with glory. To the Belgians I promised English and French troops under the command of King Albert...
...Presumably the butler's name is not that of the Admirable Crichton, discreet, able butler who (in Sir James's socialistic play of that title) takes command of an aristocratic family on a deserted island, after shipwreck. The play was first produced in 1903, and cinematographed in 1919 under the title of Male and Female...
...Manhattan last week; on the stage of Carnegie Hall, Conductor Walter Damrosch lifted his baton high for the first New York Symphony concert of the season. Mozart had the honor of beginning, with his energetic Symphony in D, cooked to order at his father's command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston...