Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George V, R. I., is naturally harassed by artists anxious to paint his portrait and gain fame and pelf thereby. Recently Artist Richard Jack, R. A., failed to persuade His Majesty to grant a sitting, but was graciously allowed the loan of a sword, a field marshal's uniform on which were pinned many orders, and a cape-all indisputably fresh from the royal wardrobe. Thus encouraged, Artist Jack slapped these accoutrements upon canvas in an attitude "regally erect," which was reported to "make the King seem unusually tall and commanding." Pleased, His Majesty inspected it last week, deigned...
...Herr President was likewise gladdened to receive from Oriental couriers a picture framed in solid gold encrusted with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil...
...that Governor Franklin S. Billings '85, of Vermont, President of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs, will president the luncheon at 1 o'clock in the Union. President Lowell will be one of the after luncheon speakers. M. A. Cheek '26, President of the Student Council and First Marshal of the Senior Class, and Professor Alfred N. Whitehead, who came last year from the University of London, will be the other speakers at this time. Professor Whitehead will give his impressions, as a newcomer, of Harvard...
...VIII of Denmark, mother of King Christian X of Denmark and of King Haakon VII of Norway, daughter of King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway, great-granddaughter of the delectable Désirée Clary (the daughter of a French banker) who charmed Napoleon and married his most fortunate Marshal, Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, later King Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway; at Copenhagen, after a long series of illnesses...
From that time on the general staffs of the two armies met every year. In 1912 Marshal Joffre declared that France had 1,300,000 men ready for instant mobilization. During the next two years frequent secret dispatches were exchanged between Paris and St. Petersburg which have been recently brought to light. These show beyond the shadow of a doubt that these countries were intentionally leading up to a war with Germany. With Great Britain, who had joined them through a fear of Germany's growing power, France and Russia knew that they had Germany in a net from which...