Word: dragoon
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...English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk's four "F" sisters dressed like demure English schoolgirls with pigtails down their backs. Queen Nazli excelled her brood in snapping, developing and printing photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor Napoleon took to Egypt, and from this ancestor King Farouk inherits his "heavy dragoon" appearance, big-boned, healthy and hefty, with a fair complexion most rare in an Egyptian. Like many people of Arab strain, however, His Majesty is not only "quick at arithmetic" but also...
...Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable and affectionate knowledge of hounds and fox-hunting...
Russia's Empress Catherine I ("Katinka"). not to be confused with Catherine II ("The Great"), got her start as a common soldier's wench who was handed up to a crack Swedish dragoon, to a marshal, to a prince and finally to Peter the Great, whose death left her on the Throne a reigning sovereign. From China last week arrived tidings almost as romantic. Years ago a cheap Chinese photographer had a certain young Chinese woman as handy girl around his studio. Buyers of obscene postcards were attracted by her looks. She was passed up to Mr. Henry...
...cavalry" can be put through. For swank British cavalrymen that meant no more polo, unless they switch to motor-cycle polo. The social implications of this order burst last week like so many bombs in the messes of cavalry units slated for almost immediate mechanization: the King's Dragoon Guards; the Queen's Bays; the King's Own Hussars; the Queen's Own Hussars; the King's Own Royal Irish Hussars; the Queen's Royal Lancers; the Tenth Royal Hussars...
...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...