Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Killed on the Western Front was another, more distant relative of the royal family, Grenadier Guardsman...
Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne and nephew of the Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...
...friends are in France or the Near East. Evelyn Waugh is a marine, Rex Whistler a guardsman, Noel Coward a man of official importance...
...home at the edge of the Arizona desert near Tucson, 79-year-old General "Black Jack" Pershing, straight as a guardsman and looking like John Barrymore in his prime, read the revelations of Secretary Lansing, called in reporters to make some of his own. Said he: on Oct. 30, 1918, twelve days before the Armistice, he had argued against it, had told the Allied Supreme War Council that they might lose the chance to make a permanent peace on secure principles if they let Germany negotiate then. He had wanted Germany to be forced to lay down arms unconditionally. Foch...
Next morning, the jovial host, a 225-lb. onetime Danish Guardsman named Lauritz Melchior, felt that things had perhaps been carried a little too far. His wife took pieces of cake and candy to the neighbors, assuring them that such a thing would never happen again. The neighbors allowed themselves to be placated. For Mrs. Melchior is very persuasive. And Lauritz Melchior is the world's No. 1 Wagnerian tenor...