Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ominous fact was that the raid had taken place at all. It meant that the Italian force had won a crucial victory over Haile Selassie's own well-trained private guard, that Marshal Badoglio, hitherto scrupulously careful to avoid treading on French or British toes with an attack on Addis Ababa, was willing to risk everything again in a furious attempt to end the war before the Little Rains descended and bogged his armies in inaction...
...Blank books were presented for the signature of the Alumni and more than eleven hundred recorded their names. These books were bound under the direction of Robert C. Winthrop, Chief Marshal of the Day, and form a quarto volume, which is to be preserved in the Archives of the University until the next Centennial Celebration...
Robert Carlton Hall '36, Third Marshal of the Senior Class and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, presided at the meeting...
...Marshal Field, Jr. '38, as Mrs. Hoopercliffe's daughter and David A. Barber '37 as the clean young man, supply the love interest. Assembled at the party is a somewhat representative assembly consisting of one foreign fortune hunter, a 'modern" poetess, a torch singer, and a disguised maid...
...Lady Consents" means that Ann Harding consents to her husband, Herbert Marshal's running off with nasty, flinty Margaret Lindsay, and then consents to take him back. It isn't hard to understand Herbert's return; what requires the grain of salt is his defection in the first place. The dialogue in this picture is genuinely artistic, and so is the way it is said. One's skeptical crust is very likely to be pierced, with a resultant sympathy for the folly, fortitude, and final triumph...