Word: grenadiere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Up from Cornerstones. In Gronchi's nine months in office, Stevens noted as he entered Quirinale Palace between gleaming rows of grenadier guards, Gronchi has brought back much of the pomp and ceremony that went out with King Umberto II in 1946. In that brief time, Giovanni Gronchi has...
On a shopping expedition in Windsor, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 7, along with five-year-old Princess Anne, in the tow of a royal nanny, rummaged about a gift shop "to buy a secret Christmas present for Mummy." His gift for Queen Elizabeth II: a miniature watercolor of...
Two Germanys. As the Russian began to speak, John Foster Dulles made notes, France's Pinay chain-smoked, Britain's Macmillan sat erect as a Grenadier Guardsman (which he once was). Harshly Molotov plunged in. He rejected out of hand the West's plan for German unity...
Hollow Triumph. To the British it had seemed simple and tidy. Lyttelton silenced Laborite criticism and moved himself nearly to tears with an emotional speech about his own affection for the Kabaka. "It was the more painful to me because he was a member of my university, and of my...
Proper Background. In appearance, manner and background, Macmillan is typecast for Foreign Secretary. He is tall (6 ft.) and debonair, with a dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago...