Word: hussar
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...historical heroines of India's freedom movement is the widowed Rani of Jhansi, who joined the 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion against British rule. Leading her small personal army, she captured a British fort and defended it until she was cut down in battle by a British hussar. The big change in feminine status came with Mahatma Gandhi, who urged women of every caste to cast aside convention and share equally with men in India's struggle for independence. Thousands heeded his call, and as India won freedom, so did many of its women. A woman served as Shastri's Health...
...There was a long pause, and then from high in the Whispering Gallery a Royal Horse Guards trumpeter sounded the Last Post, its plaintive notes ascending and echoing round the dome itself. In answer, from across the cathedral, came the bugle call of Reveille played by a Royal Irish Hussar, a hearty and heartening last trump that would have stirred the old warrior's blood...
Less memorable were performances by Wendy Bensinger, whose Southern accent and stiffness do little for the part of Anais, and John Williams, whose Hussar lover was plain ludicrous. Timothy Mayer had some good moments as Miss Fay's aged clerk, but on the whole he bounced about excessively...
...that in a few years he was able to buy a small country estate at Melikhovo, where he planted a cherry orchard and began, as he put it, to "squeeze the last drop of slave out" of himself. At Melikhovo, Chekhov was a lavish host, dressed up as a hussar to amuse his guests, flirted with his sister's pretty friend "Lika" Mizinova...
...Metternich said that "the levels of man commenced with baron." Ippolita marries one-Baron Konrad von Grueber-and it becomes the ruefully comic epic of Ippolita's skinflint life to retrieve her one uncharacteristic act of giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes...