Word: dragoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to realize the Nazi dream of a perfect "Totalitarian State," Adolf Hitler has notably failed to bring to heel Germany's devout Protestant pastors and their congregations. So thoroughly has the Nazi Reich Bishop, blustering onetime Army Chaplain Luclwig Miiller, been frustrated in his efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered...
Engaged. Vera, Countess of Cathcart, fortyish, divorced wife of the late George Cathcart, 5th Earl of Cathcart, previously Vera Fraser of Cape Town, later the widow of Capt. de Grey Warter of the 4th Dragoon Guards; and Sir Rowland Frederic William Hodge, seventyish; famed shipbuilder; in London, a week after the marriage of Lady Cathcart's son Henry de Grey Warter to Mabel Bowers Rean of British vaudeville. In 1926 Lady Cathcart was temporarily refused entry to the U. S. in a famed case of "moral turpitude." Three years prior she had gone to Cape Town with the Earl...
...chief attraction. Kindhearted, affectionate, she became Ashenden's mistress, but he knew he shared her with others. One day she ran off to the U. S. with a married man she liked better than any of them. Wrhen Driffield married again his second wife did her best to dragoon him into respectability, finally outwardly succeeded. Word came from the U. S. that Rosie was dead. But close-mouthed Ashenden knew better. On a lecture tour in the States he had had a note from her, had called to find her a widow in Yonkers. Rosie was old, fat, bobbed-haired...