Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unhappily, such matters are not well taught at Harrow and Sandhurst, where 41-year-old Brigadier Derek Schreiber, chief of staff to the Governor-General (H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester) was educated. When the Brigadier married fashionable Viscountess Clive last fall his valet, ex-Corporal Ernest Cyril Field, persuaded himself that the marriage would mean an increase in his duties. He asked for a raise. Schreiber declined, Field departed...
...first to arrive. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg drew long, appraising looks. There were "ohs" and "ahs" for the Chinese, and for the Saudi Arabians in their green robes piped with white. There were a few cheers for Ernest Bevin, more for black-clad Eleanor Roosevelt...
...would take to the new dress whites (see cut), which some sour old regulars thought would look fine on soda jerks. Best-looking of the lot were the dress blues with battle jacket and overseas cap-although they were still not up to the crisp splendor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime COMINCH and Chief of Naval Operations, who-looking like an embossed pillar of naval majesty surmounted by scrambled eggs-was named last week by Apparel Arts as the best-dressed sailor...
Britain, in particular, was coming to the meeting in a determined mood. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin long ago put on record his Government's intention to sacrifice a good deal, but not everything, for world collaboration. Britons did not hide their feeling that at Moscow U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had sacrificed too much for too little. The British are convinced that Russia is not the almighty, irresistible force which she makes herself...
...Canada's surprise, he was drafted into politics in December 1941 as Mr. King's choice to succeed the late Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe. At his first press conference, Minister St. Laurent told reporters: "I know nothing at all about politics." In his first election campaign, he proved it by telling his ultra-isolationist constituents in Quebec East that he would vote for conscription. But he was elected with a whopping majority. He scored another tremendous victory in last June's election...