Word: martinets
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...received word that General Uberovitch had been appointed Soviet Commander-in-Chief. During the World War he served as a regimental commander in the Imperial Russian Army, was later C.-in-C. of the Soviet forces which repulsed the white Russian Armies from Siberia in 1919. Though a taciturn martinet, Comrade Commander Uberovitch is popular in the Red Army, is reckoned its most brilliant strategist...
Within a few hours came the curt, scornful reply of Premier Count Bethlen, a martinet, a virtual dictator: "The Hungarian Government tonight received with surprise your telegram. . . . The public auction sale [of the demolished parts] is scheduled for tomorrow. . . . It is impossible to postpone the auction...
...Majesty Il Re Vittorio Emanuele is a Neapolitan, but not typical. True citizens of Naples are swart, merry fellows, quick to laugh, quicker to bluster, and apt to be stirring and shouting at all hours of the day or night. His Majesty, on the contrary, is cold, a martinet; but all the same he was born at Naples in 1869. Therefore thousands of Neapolitans lined the quays last week in their finest frenzy as the royal yacht Savoia, paced by four destroyers, swung into the Bay of Naples. A "favorite son" was home, pandemonium held carnival...
...sovereignty of France has been upheld in her Syrian League Mandate during the past year by two diametrically antithetical High Commissioners: the ruthless martinet, General Maurice Serrail, who was recalled after he bombarded Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925); and the genial editor of Le Matin, Henry de Jouvenel (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), who returned to Paris recently and reported Syria still far from pacified...
...Denmark could command any ship capable of being sailed, in language sufficiently lurid to cow the most rebellious forecastle hand. Since Carl has become Haakon, he has not so much mellowed as acquired reserve. Cheerful, kindly, stout of heart, he conceals these characteristics behind the bearing of a martinet...