Word: dragooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarlet dragoon's uniform, he preens before a mirror and loftily mouths stanzas from Byron. Playing the highborn gentleman, though fooling no one, Con charges over the countryside on a thoroughbred mare while reducing his daughter to a barroom slavey. He sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade...
...production benefits from careful blocking and occasionally inspired choreography. One problem, however, is that too many of Seltzer's directorial gimmicks seem stale; the use and abuse of cards with lyrics written on them, the single clutzy dragoon marring the dragoon chorus line, the succession of encores marked by the increasing exhaustion and hostility of the participating characters--all these have grown familiar enough by now to G&S patrons...
Died. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 77, squat, solemn Soviet marshal dubbed "the Eisenhower of Russia"; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Zhukov fought in World War I as a Czarist dragoon, in 1918 suited up as a Red Army cavalryman. After weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad...
...suit instead of the traditional white tie and tails, planned to forsake the usual armada of limousines and motorcycles and arrive at the palace on foot. There he would review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served as a tank gunner during World War II. When he later makes the ceremonial visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, the new President will walk up the Champs-Elysées instead of being driven there by limousine...
...Roger had become "mentally unbalanced." Cracked or not, Casement was confident that a victorious Germany would benignly liberate Ireland. He made his way to Berlin, where he soon found that the German government consisted of "swine and cads." His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans and dragoon them into fighting the British proved a wretched fiasco-and even his hosts showed their distaste for the notion of tampering with soldiers' loyalties. In the days of Verdun and Jutland, there were, after all, 250,000 Irish volunteers fighting on the Allied side. Casement nevertheless persuaded the Germans...