Word: haig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bankes, who rowed so hard in practice that he broke five oars, was given an oar with a half inch less leverage and a 6-inch blade. Furthermore, by a sporting arrangement which U. S. rowing coaches would find strange. Peter Haig-Thomas, whom experts held responsible for the string of Cambridge victories, this year changed sides, coached the Oxford boat...
...when he remarks (hat Rolls-Royce was the only make of car his family ever used, and then prints a photograph of his father driving him in a pre-War Packard. He becomes incredible with such an anecdote as the one in which he has the late Sir Douglas Haig tap him on the shoulder and inquire: "I say, American, how long do you think this bally war will last?" He admits he lost his entire share of the family estate ($1,903,000) in his ill-advised venture into tabloid publishing. He repeats the story (for which General Smedley...
...Status of Women," Here was a subject near and dear to the heart of Helen Rogers Reid, and on which she could have given competent testimony. But she left the symposium to her peers, notably three women who spoke by radio from overseas. First of these was Margaret Haig Mackworth, Britain's Viscountess Rhondda...
Chicago was long on U. S. whiskeys, short on Scotch. Old Taylor, Old McBrayer, Old Grand Dad, Four Roses, brought $3 a pint. No Johnny Walker or Haig & Haig were in sight...
...long wrestles with the professional soldier, as represented by Lord Kitchener and Sir Douglas Haig, he generally enlists the reader's sympathy. Apparently Kitchener for a long time could not be made to see the necessity of increasing supplies of heavy guns and high explosives, objecting to them obstinately on the grounds of unnecessary expense. An almost speaking photograph shows "Papa" Joffre and Haig behind the lines at the Battle of the Somme, excitedly pointing out to Lloyd George, who stares at them skeptically, that as soon as the imminent break-through is made, their massed cavalry will charge...