Word: haig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Life courses on persistently in the elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept...
...private secretary to Field Marshal Lord Haig (then Sir Douglas Haig). At 30 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the then Premier David Lloyd George. It was while acting in this capacity immediately after the War that he was host to the Supreme War Council at his gorgeous home at Port Lympne, Kent. He is also a trustee of the National and Tate (art) Galleries, the Wallace (art) collection and of the British School at Rome...
...grey suit, as toastmaster. The Prince talked quietly with Commander Savage and Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton until a red-coated attendant rapped the gavel. Then he lifted his glass to "The King!" made a short speech and raised his glass again "To the President of the United States." Earl Haig, British commander-in-chief in the War, recalled incidents of U. S. gallantry. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Adaline Wright Macauley spoke for their respective Legion Auxiliaries...
...difficult. He raged against the English, then fastened on Haig...
...University voted last week, 229 to 164, to limit the number of women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...