Word: geralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct succession is George VI's only sister, the Princess Royal, and her family: George, seventh Earl of Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), sometime opera critic for the left-wing New Statesman and married to a Viennese pianist, their year-old son, and his younger brother, the Hon. Gerald Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), who once shocked the court by falling in love with a bonny barmaid, reduced the shock by not marrying...
Four months ago Sir Henry Gurney, Britain's High Commissioner in Malaya, was murdered by jungle Communists. Last week the British appointed a new High Commissioner to take his place: tall, lean, Anglo-Irish Sir Gerald Templer, one of the scrappiest fighters and toughest administrators in the British army. Winston Churchill had him fly the Atlantic to be looked over before being given a job which will require tact as well as toughness...
Piano Casualty. A brusque soldier who likes to raise his voice in regimental song, 53-year-old Gerald Templer began his fighting career on the Western Front in 1916. Since then, he has generally been found in the thick of things wherever & whenever Britain had a war or her hands: in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot...
...colony's business but are denied political equality. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, recently returned from Malaya, says: "You cannot expect to overcome the emergency without the help of the civilian population [but] you cannot get the help of the civilian population without beginning to win the war." Gerald Templer, emphatically briefed by Churchill and Lyttelton on the political as well as the military hazards, will go to Malaya with more authority than any of his predecessors to do what he thinks right...
Other targets of Hall's speech were Gerald L. K. Smith's Christian Nationalist Crusade, Joseph Kamp's Constitutional League, Conde McGinley's Commonsense, and Merwin K. Hart's National Economic Council...