Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lower caste, Férol was the scum of the earth. Langlois rejoined the regiment, after a leave spent with his young wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line taken within 48 hours, because their general had the reputation of a fire-eater and because the regiment was his tested mouthpiece, the exhausted men were routed out of a five-hour sleep and hurried back into the front line. The optimistic...
...Tilford's by his Dunster House acquaintances, partakes freely of intoxicating potations at periodic intervals. Under the influence of demon rum, he invariably gives vent to his superfluous enthusiasm by standing on Copperthwaite Street at six o'clock in the morning, summoning all the vocal power at his command, and calling out random remarks concerning the intelligence, habits, and ancestry of Dunster men in particular, Harvard men more generally, and all college students in the final analysis. When his sister attempts to lead him back into his dwelling he is equally vociferous in his remarks concerning her virginity and occupation...
...oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Piet...
...reduced salaries and abbreviated seasons at the Met, are giving more & more time to radio and concerts. Tibbett made the point that the two radio dates which he sacrificed last winter would have paid him almost as much as his entire season in opera. Few hours after Johnson took command Rosa Ponselle was ready to cooperate. In June the new manager will sail for Europe to sign more contracts. He was expected to be more lenient than Witherspoon in the matter of concerts, although he called them hazardous. "You come in from an engagement and catch cold on a Pullman...
...walked into St. Peter's directly behind the Pope and at the head of a long procession of ecclesiastics, and who later joined with other prelates in symbolically presenting the Pope bread, wine, water and cages of birds, the Holy Father's words were weighty with command. "We desire," said Pius XI to his 40,000 listeners, "that in your ardent prayers . . . you ask of the Lord that which is so dear to our heart, namely, that England, in the words of St. Paul, 'meditating the happy consummation that crowned the lives' of these two martyrs...