Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, who has received shamrocks from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a painting from the Lord Mayor of Cork and Holland gin from the Burgomaster of Amsterdam, was still taking it-this time a dozen Banbury buns from the Lord Mayor of Banbury...
...Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Marine Corps island assaults in the Pacific and veteran of 40 years' service in the Corps, was retired at 64 with the rank of four-star general...
George VI, whose Household Cavalry* participated in the liberation of Holland, got a handsome package of thanks from visiting Queen Wilhelmina: two high-stepping greys for coach duty, 30 blacks for the cavalry...
...professional soldier, was killed in France in 1915. Vyvyan, now 60, studied law, lives in London, works for the BBC. In 1943 he married Australian-born Thelma Besant, a great-great niece of Theosophist Annie Besant. They have one son, Christopher Merlin Vyvyan, born in 1945. Says Vyvyan Holland (the Holland surname was adopted by Constance Wilde, under strong pressure from her family, after Oscar's conviction): "I was only nine in 1895, and was not even told of my father's difficulties until I was 20. Everything happened so long ago that I am beginning to wonder...
...Concitions in Central Europe are deteriorating rapidly. . . . Undoubtedly conditions are better in Holland, Denmark and Belgium, but they are still very difficult in France and are terrible in parts of Germany. Unless some means can be found whereby the New World, and countries that have supplies of food and clothing, can furnish those supplies to the people [who need them], there may be conditions of famine, of strife and of turmoil which will amount to ... revolution throughout Europe. I think I am not wrong...