Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another personage for whom the crush gave way was Marshal Joseph Joffre- "Papa" Joffre, just robbed of 50,000 francs and with water on the knee...
Ignoring the advice of physicians and the pleading of friends, Mr. Herrick at the funeral of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (TIME, April 1) had taken off his silk hat, tramped more than two miles in the rain, caught a cold which broke down his long precarious health and killed him within five days...
Physicians who attended Marshal Foch said that he had contracted pneumonia walking in a chill London drizzle behind the body of Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME...
Good "Papa" Joffre was snoring. He has a touch of water on the knee, nowadays, and he tires easily. Therefore after a morning stroll in his Paris garden last week the beloved old Marshal climbed stiffly and painfully upstairs, sank with relief into a large armchair, dozed off and soon was snoring...
After a time the Marshal waked, and he was busily working on his memoirs when his wife returned, followed at a respectful distance by cook and market basket. In the basket was an old cock, just right for an old man's chicken soup, a bottle of wine as the Bible says "for thy stomach's sake," and some cheap but wholesome vegetables, for heroes are seldom rich...