Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the newsreels had been taken by British cameramen; the first films to appear were unusually amateurish. The appearance in the news pictures of Ensign Franklin Jr. and Captain Elliott Roosevelt, fully uniformed, wearing the shoulder aiguillettes of Presidential aides, seemed to exasperate many a U.S. citizen who likes everything about the President but his family. When Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply, turned up suddenly in Washington, all these cumulative exasperations were expressed by a local wit who snarled: "Beaverbrook came over to see if the British had left anything...
Already stripped of many old traditions, Eton last week sacrificed one of its most sacred: its uniform. The world's best-dressed schoolboys always had to wear black striped trousers with their Eton jackets, a different prescribed outfit for every occasion, every sport. Headmaster Claude Elliott sent to parents of prospective matriculants a sad note...
Into the wooded, gullied fields around Polly Ray Mountain at Fort Bragg, N.C., 18,000 troops of the Ninth Division moved for maneuvers. Everything was set for a nice little black & white wargame. Infantrymen and artillerymen were to attack the hill. The defenders were Lieut. Colonel John Elliott Wood's 41st Engineers, the first regiment of Negro engineers in the new Army...
Donor Norton is pretty well satisfied with the 145 paintings he gave the museum: he and his wife spent 20 years collecting them. Sixty are by contemporary U.S. artists-Robert Brackman, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne, Robert Philipp, Jerry Farnsworth. Earlier U.S. artists like Inness, Whistler, Frederick Waugh, Elliott Daingerfield, are represented. English portraitists, a few illustrative old and French Impressionist masters help round out the collection...
Farina, the spindly, pigtailed pickaninny of the old "Our Gang" comedies, turned up in the Army as husky, close-cropped Private Alan Clay Hoskins. >> John Roosevelt, youngest of the President's sons, went on active duty with the Naval Reserve, joined Brothers James, Franklin Jr. and Elliott, in uniform. >> The fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Jaipur, 29, joined the British forces in Egypt as a captain. At home he has a private army of his own, rides in a solid gold-and-silver coach. >> Mrs. Otto H. Kahn made herself useful in Cairo's British canteens. >> Rex Beach...