Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cairo, King Fuad received Lord Allenby in audience, later issued a proclamation...
...lying between the Residency at Cairo and Downing Street, a stream of dots and dashes spelt enigmatical words which were decoded rapidly by experts. Lord Allenby, rigid, hard, unflinching disciplinarian, was making demands and recommendations; the Cabinet was considering them. Then came a telegram: "Sir Lee Stack died tonight at midnight." Next morning a code message sped to Egypt; it was a British ultimatum...
...them to the doleful strains of the Dead March, their rifles reversed, their legs doing a slow, rhythmic, painful imitation of the goosestep. The sombre field-grey gun-carriage, bedecked with floral tributes, came next, bearing its coffin shrouded in a Union Jack. Behind came the mourners?Lady Stack, Lord Allenby, Lady Allenby, Captain Campbell, Premier Zaghlul, onetime Premier Herbert H. Asquith (on a visit to Egypt), all the members of the Egyptian Cabinet, all the diplomatic representatives. Overhead a squadron of airplanes mournfully circled. At several points, guns belched forth a major-general's salute...
After the funeral ceremony, Lord Allenby, attired in a lounge suit, left the Residency in an automobile, which was followed by a troop of cavalry. His square-set jaw announced to those who saw him that he meant business; and those who had served with him in Palestine knew that when Lord Allenby means business something happens...
Allenby's Note. It took Lord Allenby exactly one hour and a half to read the note of the Egyptian Government, draft a reply and have it delivered to the Egyptian Foreign office. The note read...