Word: gallipolis
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...continent down under, the scattered cities and distant towns celebrate yearly with prayers, parades and boutonnieres of wattle* Australia's most important holiday, Anzac Day. Australians like to recall that it was on April 25, 1915, when Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli, that the youthful nation "first got into trouble." Last week on Anzac Day, Anzac troops were again in trouble, fighting the last cruel hours of their desperate delaying action at Thermopylae, and Australians' anxiety for the safety of their soldiers and security of their nation ran high...
...wings, Secretary Moir has seen Winnie strut the stage with nothing but a towel about his middle. She has heard him bawl for his mail, his secretary and a scotch & soda all in one breath. She tells of how he took up painting to assuage the bitterness that followed Gallipoli, how in his younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis Moir more Peter Pan than...
Short, tight-mouthed, efficient as a gyrocompass and untiring as the Mediterranean sun, Sir Andrew spent most of his years on the way up aboard destroyers, mostly in the Mediterranean. He learned some unhappy lessons off Cape Helles during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. He is known as a grim disciplinarian and a bear for work. He has such a loud voice for commands that his underlings say that inter-ship signals in battle are just a waste of effort; and he is such an expert navigator that his crews say he could cut an egg in half with...
...till 1933) was doing pretty well as manager of a press cable service when he set out as a correspondent for the war in 1915. But he got his real start as an Empire bigwig when he landed in Britain, handed Lloyd George a confidential report on conditions in Gallipoli. Soon he was chatting with Cabinet ministers, generals, big businessmen in London, and Lord Northcliffe...
Senator Foil, Menzies' successor as Minister of Information, started his career as secretary to the Minister of Railroads in Queensland, fought in World War I until he was invalided out after Gallipoli, in 1919 served on a committee to investigate "The Effects of Intoxicating Liquors on Australian Soldiers." For three years (1926-29) he was the Government's Senate whip, last October was made Minister of Interior. None of these things made him a famous Australian. When the Information Ministry sent out a bulletin announcing the Menzies Cabinet in October, Senator Foil's name was given...