Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned to get along. In making his official courtesy call on the commanding officer of a new post, he always saw to it that the officer was out at the time. Later, as a roving representative of the Inspector General's office, he always arranged his schedule to arrive at a new command in midafternoon, so that the commanding officer could look him over and decide whether to invite him to dinner. "I was always the only colored officer at my post," he recalled. "But it made no difference to me. Nobody paid any attention, and at every post...
...quiet dignity and soldierly efficiency had made him a full colonel; eight years later, he got his first major command: a Harlem National Guard regiment. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt appointed him brigadier general, the U.S. Army's first and only Negro general officer, and he took over the 4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Riley, Kans. He was sent to Europe in 1942, won the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in inspecting Negro troops and easing explosive Army racial tensions. After the war he settled into the routine of peacetime Army life...
Diaghilev's "Ballet Russe" took Europe's breath away; and kept it breathless for a generation. The Ballet's heyday was a succession of champagne parties, command performances and brilliant triumphs; all the first-rate artists of the day were caught up in it: composers like Ravel, Richard Strauss and DeFalla; artists like Picasso, Matisse, Bakst and Rouault; dancers like Nijinsky and Karsavina; choreographers like Fokine, Massine and Balanchine...
Hero Jack Dillon-like Author Cain a Baltimore Irishman-tells the story in the first person, a common practice in Cain's novels, which absolves the author from having to write in English. Cain's command of the I'm-telling-you-brother vernacular has been compared with Lardner and Hemingway, but it is neither as inventive as Lardner's nor as selective as Hemingway's. It often sounds like what it often is-something the movies picked up pure and handed back to Americans as if it had been their...
They toured Europe, playing nearly 1,000 concerts. When war came they joined the R.A.F. together, and were made the official R.A.F. Quartet. Besides playing in shelters, at airdromes and in factories, they played a command performance at Buckingham Palace, and at the Potsdam conference. U.S. critics, who first heard them on a 60-concert tour of the U.S. in 1939, generally rate them among the top four or five quartets playing in this country. No other major quartet has stayed together so long...