Word: herbert
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Thirteen years later, another British army, under General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (thenceforth known as K of K, Kitchener of Khartoum), set out to avenge Gordon. As the dervishes tried to cut their way out in a ferocious surge known as the Battle of Omdurman, a young cavalry officer named Winston Churchill got in the way, nearly lost his life. Dervish power was smashed...
Paepcke bought one of the old houses, soon returned to buy or lease most of the other buildings. He thought of rebuilding the whole town. But the more he looked at the buildings, the more their quaint, ghostly flavor got him. Result: when he hired Designer Herbert Bayer as architect, Mr. Paepcke (who is the principal backer of Chicago's arty Institute of Design) gave orders that Aspen's once-Gay Nineties atmosphere was to be preserved to the last piece of gingerbread...
Delegates elected to the State Convention were Stanley G. Karson '48, Robert Fischelis '48, William Nelson 1G, Edward Finkelstein '46, Richard G. Axt '46, Selig S. Harrison '48, Charles Sellers '47, Arnold W. Rivkin 2G, Irving Kent 2G, Fred Houghteling '49, Herbert F. Regal '47, Stanley Rothenburg '47, Charles R. Conklin '48, Thomas Brooks '47, and Reginald Zalles...
Describing the British people as having "matured politically" during the war years, Gordon-Walker, Parliamentary Secretary of Herbert Morrison, attributed the victory of the labour forces in 1945 to the fact that the citizens could no longer be fooled by "Conservative tricks...
Gordon-Walker is one of the group of young intellectuals who are rising to prominence in British Labour Party circles. He is now Parliamentary Secretary to Herbert Morrison, the Lord President of the Council, and also serves as floor leader of the Labour forces in the House of Commons...