Word: hussar
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...Picture, That Lady in Ermine, presents Betty as an Italian countess (she is also an ancestress who conies down from her portrait on the castle wall-but no matter, it is only Betty again). She is struggling to save her domain from the grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such...
...wind. Weather permitting, she would ride over to these shelters in a little carriage drawn by a white pony led by a Highland attendant." When she died, "the Edwardian era had arrived in the genial shape of my grandfather; and the effect . . . was the same ... as if a Viennese hussar had suddenly burst into an English vicarage...
...clerk, bewigged and begowned Sir Gilbert Campion, rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish...
...planes, British armor attacking the German column on its flanks cracked off segments of it and pinned them against the sea. Slain was monocled George Stumme, second in command to Rommel. In the midst of one melee, when a man darted from a crippled Nazi armored car, a British Hussar leaped from his tank and collared him. "I am a general," the captive said severely. He was Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Commander of the Afrika Korps...
When the Sea Cloud was built at Kiel in 1931, at a cost variously estimated at $1,000,000 to $3,500,000, she was known as the Hussar; Mrs. Davies was then Mrs. Edward F. Hutton. When Mrs. Hutton changed her name to Davies, she changed Hussar to Sea Cloud, went off on her for a honeymoon in the Caribbean...