Word: gerarde
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...Rock's governor, Lieut. General Sir Clive Gerard ("Jock") Liddell, knew that, as Germany pushed home her attack on Great Britain (see p. 30), Gibraltar was really in for it from the Italians. There was even a report that the Germans were massing troops below Bordeaux for a land assault on the world's greatest fortress. This attack would come across Spain, which was less likely than ever to interfere, in view of Britain's plan announced last week to extend the blockade to all Spanish and Portuguese ports. Sir Clive's gravest concern...
Star of the show was handsome, seven-year-old Gerard Darrow, who, on the Quiz Kids' first program, startled listeners with the information that a "candlefish is a small fish of the smelt family, used by the Pacific Coast Indians for its oil. The oil burns readily and very brightly and has a terrible odor." Runner-up in popularity to Gerard on the two programs so far is 13-year-old Van Dyke Tiers. Pacing right along, last week Van Dyke showed his speed by fully explaining PK4 (a chess term). Thirteen-year-old Mary Ann Anderson, a high...
Last week, a few Barbary apes-meat for air bombs-still squeaked and picked their fleas on Gibraltar, but the British garrison under Lieut. General Sir Clive Gerard ("Jock") Liddell, 57, knew that terrible tests lay not far in the future...
General Henri Gerard Winkelman, Commander in Chief of the Dutch armed forces, made the announcement in the absence of Queen Wilhelmina and Premier Dirk Jan de Geer, who had fled to England...
...last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch defense system stood ready and the men in it, commanded by hard-bitten old General Henri Gerard Winckelman, had their...