Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could...
...political enemies prevented him from becoming Marshal Joffre's Chief of Staff and later, when he was slated tc. succeed the latter as Commander-in-Chief, he had the chagrin of seeing General Nivelle, many years his junior, promoted above him. Again, in 1921, political intrigue prevented him from being promoted a Marshal of France with Generals D'Espérey, Fayolle and Lyautey...
Died. Gabriel Foch, 75, elder brother of Marshal Foch; in Tarbes, France...
...candidate receiving the highest total shall be declared first marshal. The candidate receiving the second highest vote shall be declared second marshal. The candidate receiving third highest shall be third marshal...
...ballot for the second election, the names of three marshals shall appear. Every elector shall vote for one man for first marshal...