Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, was en route to Russia aboard H. M. S. Hampshire on June 5, 1916. So much and no more the world knows of Kitchener. Why the Hampshire sank is not positively known, though conclusive evidence has been adduced to show that she sank as a result of the explosion of a submarine mine. Because so little is known, or because there is so little to know of the presumptive death by drowning of Lord Kitchener, the press has been flooded with recurrent rumors that: a) He was seen in an open...
Cosima Wagner, widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony...
Sheep. Impoverished at home, France is more and more turning her hopeful attention to the North African empire carved and welded for her by Marshal Lyautey. Africa was a central theme at the meeting last week of the French Association for the Advancement of Science. Alfred Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME...
...childish and sometimes sublime Arabian race. Without Occidental companions, but traveling with a retinue of native servants and dining every evening in a Paris gown, Miss Bell was the first woman to cross the great Arabian Desert, and later tossed off two books* on the Near East, which Field Marshal Allenby confessed to poring over, both before and during his compaigns in the Near East...
Colonel Lawrence personally dynamited 70 Turkish bridges, and a score of Turkish railway trains. It was he who drove the Turks from Damascus with a Pan-Arab army, in the name of King Hussein of the Hejaz and Arabia, a few hours before Field Marshal Allenby's columns arrived to make the victory secure. It was Colonel Lawrence whom Marshal Allenby had fetched by airplane that the Colonel and the Field Marshal might enter Jerusalem together. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference. It was he, moody, mystical, perverse, who was driven...