Word: grenadiere
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In Gus's once-jampacked pub sat just two tweedy Cambridge men (one without an arm), two half-pint ratings from the Submarine Service, two burly noncoms from the Grenadier Guards. A tipsy ex-Tommy wanted to bet five pounds to four on Oxford and got no takers. A...
(Duke of Windsor). In Lillibet's case Grandma has modernized her idea of fun to include such excursions as that of last week, when the Princess and a party of friends dined & wined at the Bagatelle, one of Mayfair's toniest nightspots, till past midnight, listened to a...
Ribbons & Spoils. Next morning the U.S. and British military governments took full command of their respective sectors. (The French had to wait, as guests of the British, until their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field...
Stern Judges. The judges entered. Four were regular magistrates with stern expressions ; five were representatives of left-wing parties. Koch was called to the bar by the president. He might have been walking into a cafe. The glance he cast at the judges might be meant for a bar tender...
Down the swank Avenida Alvear marched two blue-uniformed police. Of all improbable places, they stopped at the home of Sr. Federico (Fritz) Mandl, Austrian-born, Argentine-naturalized munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks...