Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much has been written about Marshal Foch in the War; how when he became 65 years of age in 1916, he was retired, as is usual with French Army officers of his rank and age; how, a year later, he was appointed to supreme command of the French Army in succession to General Nivelle-an appointment for which MM. Painleve and Clemenceau still claim the credit; how he became generalissimo of the Allied Armies on the Western Front at a time of acute stress; how his expert strategy succeeded in routing the Germans and how Premier Clemenceau recommended President Poincare...
Although he had won the War by virtue of holding the unified command of all the Entente armies fighting in France, Marshal Foch was deprived of any power at the Paris Peace Conference. He could make speeches, say what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, but that was all. With all his might he counselled France to extend her northeast frontier to the historic and natural boundary of the Rhine; but the anti-Catholic Clemenceau, no lover of Catholic Foch, would not listen. Indeed, Clemenceau would not listen to much more that the Marshal said...
...thing. Modern singers, it is true, are trained to careful diction; but even to the best of singers, words are no more than so many sibilants, dental fricatives, head-tones and gargles. It is often difficult, even for a critic reasonably near the stage and with a command of several languages, to tell what tongue an opera singer is enraptured in, unless he cheats by looking at the program. Great poets are sensitive. To hear their lines thus trilled, gargled, causes them inconceivable anguish; they seldom write librettos. Yet U. S. audiences, hearing opera in French, German, Russian, Italian, care...
...further admitted that the revolt was serious. Martial law was proclaimed. Eight Turkish divisions (two-fifths of the entire Standing Army) were dispatched to Kurdistan* to quell the bloodthirsty Kurds. Five classes of conscripts were called to the colors. General Ismet Pasha, onetime Prime Minister, was appointed to command military operations. It was impossible to determine the extent or the success of the fighting, as reports were as speedily denied as they were issued; but it could be assumed, since the Turkish Army had not had time to get into action, that no decisive engagements had taken place. The causes...
...running at tradition's stirrup, has employed style as a thrilling, necessary but irrelevant mechanism for the exaltation of personality, of subject; yet it is only by virtue of this mechanism that he is an artist at all. He succeeds or fails merely in the extent of his command over it. If line, color, form, alone are Art, say such moderns as the Four Blue Ones, the intrusion of anything else is corruption. As a sonata is composed of a series of audile sensations called chords, a painting is composed of a series of visual sensations. Artists should...