Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head professor for the lesson was flashy, parrot-beaked Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, commander of the First Army, whose professional fitness (like other high commanders') was being tested by the maneuvers. He came through with flying colors (though once his personal colors almost hit the ground). His force (numerically superior, equal in fire power, inferior in air power and mobility) did more than just stop the Panzer outfits; it theoretically hacked units of the proud First Armored Corps to bits, backed Major General Oscar W. Griswold's army up a good 40 miles...
...maneuvers opening, Hugh Drum's Blue Army of 200,000 was in position east of the Pee Dee River. Fifty miles west were the Reds...
...Churchill has given more than a hint that he is for No. 2. That, I suspect, would be my own choice. . . . The Moslems of North-west India are the Protestant Boys of the East, as convinced as any Belfast Orangemen that the Protestant Boys shall carry the Drum, and much better fighters, I should say, than either we or the Germans. They think so themselves...
Almost a tradition is "Jeeves," billed as "the jokester-butler" in the publicity pamphlet which Mrs. Barnes has issued to drum up trade for her entertainers. "With his thumb in the soup and his tongue in his cheek, Jeeves does indeed keep the evening on its feet and jumping." What Jeeves does is entirely up to him, and once the party has begun no one knows, least of all the hostess, what's in store. "All I have to do is raise hell in a subtle sort of way," he modestly explains...
...into a cupped band and with the other drew his coat lapels more tightly closed. Through the drizzling rain he could, standing tiptoe, see the motley crowd of dignitaries on the slightly elevated platform. Someone, probably a Senator, was speaking. The old familiar, rhetorical phrases filtered through the steady drum of water against stone: "We the people must . . . not in our memory nor in . . . as the greatest nation . . . proud, triumphant and free . . ." Behind the speaker Vag saw the pudgy figure of the President-elect. The astounding victory of that demagogue had swept the war administration out of office...