Word: goat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Quadrumvir jolted last week up to the Army's highest rank of Marshal and into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight...
...friend. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, greatest of Italy's surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff under Italian Commander in Chief General Diaz...
...always felt that musicals should not have plots. This one is mostly about Eleanor Powell and a producer, Robert Taylor. She went to school with him, but when she comes to New York for a job on the stage she forgets to give him the sign of the goat (waving of the fingers underneath the chin); so he doesn't recognize her. But does she finally get her big chance? In the last shot are they embracing behind a bush? She does. They...
Dear to venerable generals destined to die in bed are the largest and showiest Zeiss field telescopes. Squinting through his on Ethiopia's Northern front last week, goat-bearded Italian Commander Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
...chief recreation is his herd of milk goats. Goat milk is valuable in the treatment of certain infants' diseases, and anyone with a sick child can call at General Falk's farm and get without charge all the goats' milk he can carry away...