Word: martinets
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...sooner had U. S. troops dug in on the Western Front in World War I than they started a newspaper. The Stars & Stripes made fun of lice and mud, pricked the vanity of many a martinet, nurtured young journalists like Alexander Woollcott, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who were later to bloom luxuriantly in Manhattan's literary gardens...
...decreed that all Turks must have a last name, General Ismet Pasha took his from the Battle of Inönü, in 1921, in which he commanded the Turkish troops who routed the Greeks. Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed...
This is the second book on Magellan in two months. In Charles Ford's Death Sails With Magellan (TIME. Nov. 15) the ill-fated Portuguese navigator was portrayed as a cold-blooded martinet who double-crossed his best friends, intended to double-cross Spain and set up his own kingdom in the East Indies...
...martinet sat on the highest branch of the tree...
...aging, easy-going lady who feels it is time she married, having had three lovers and a son, now grown, whom she was able to send to a good school because two possible fathers claimed his paternity, thus making him "almost legitimate." She is about to marry Victor Martinet (A. E. Matthews) who is aware of her past but wishes she would not talk about it so much. On the eve of the ceremony Victor is bowled over by a baroness. Dutiful Son Robert (Rex O'Malley), a doctor, saves the situation by seducing the baroness, to the consternation...