Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed Fred Stover, chief butcher. Mrs. Tatiana Sztybel, refugee from the siege of Warsaw, was hurled against a wall like a rag doll, left moaning with a badly injured spine. In the smoking room, where water poured through shattered ports, men and women and furniture were piled in a jumbled heap while the precipitous floor turned slick with blood and water...
...Jerusalem Lieut.-General Archibald Percival Wavell, who during War I was a British liaison officer to the Russian Imperial Army fighting the Turks, commanded a force of 60,000 Britons. Both these veterans came to Ankara to help their Ambassadors explain that Turkey, unlike Poland, would not be left to fight Germany alone should she sign up with Britain and France...
What another generation of Britons wondered last week was why the defenses of Scapa Flow, notoriously weak at the beginning of World War I, could possibly have been left vulnerable to a submarine which slipped in and sank Royal Oak last fortnight. The London Times called it "grave matter for investigation by the Naval Court of Inquiry which is now sitting." The Daily Express snorted: "... a disgrace . . . inexcusable...
...Angly was further charmed when he discovered that the "Captain Cambridge" who, in a driving rain across muddy fields, showed him through a British blockhouse and then was left on duty there while his Colonel took the newsmen to cosy tea, was Queen Mary's nephew, Lord Frederick Cambridge...
...Chaplin of I. N. S. reported seeing a distinguished British officer lay a wreath on a grave marked with his own name in one of the great World War I cemeteries near the front. The grave contained the officer's amputated leg, believed to be all that was left...