Word: grenadiere
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To the casual observer, the Earl of Harewood would seem a very proper lord. A first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, he stands 18th in succession to the British throne, has an excellent wartime record (Grenadier Guards), an elegant estate at Leeds, a lively interest in music, and is chairman of...
Knockout Punch. Behind the rapid-fire left jabs of its M16s, the infantry squad carries a knockout punch in the blunderbuss-shaped M-79 grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the...
The groom was Captain Harold Macmillan, a Grenadier Guard, Old Etonian and classical scholar of Balliol, who would almost certainly never have written a book about himself (the family publishes, but does not write) had he not also, by the laws of the British invention called natural selection, become Prime...
The old conception had been molded by Braun's grandfather, who helped found the company in 1886. Aiming at the overfed women of the Reich's middle class, he marketed corsets under such formidable names as "Colossus," "Hercules" and "Grenadier," the last with a whalebone skeleton guaranteed to...
The Prime Ministers of many of those nations were present last week to help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from...