Word: grenadiere
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¶ Since the fighting services of all nations are apt to regard men of the sword as an elite caste apart, no amount of fulmination against Germany last week made life any the less pleasant for Lieutenant von Wick. This spruce young German officer lately crossed the Channel for training...
In general, uniform designers are almost as anonymous a lot as postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers...
Without world union, which would reproduce internationally the national structure essential to the rule of law, the League must remain in this outland. Mr. Hitler must look to its rulers for its substance; and having done so, he is not reassured. To a mere club of public ethics this sincere...
Unlike the race of 1931, in which a British yachtsman was swept overboard and drowned, last week's ended without a catastrophe. Lloyd's agents, looking out from the Lizard (headland at the tip of Cornwall) for the yachts on their return voyage first sighted the Flame, a...
¶ Leaving Buckingham Palace after a late chat with George V last week, lean, purposeful U. S. Conference Delegate Key Pittman found himself marooned in the palace courtyard. The tall iron gates were locked. The imposing Grenadier Guards in their massive bearskin hats refused to do any unlocking. Senator Pittman...