Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Napoleonic Wars the British captured a French senior officer named Charles Sandré, sent him to Dartmoor Prison. While his comrades marched and countermarched across Europe, he could see them all in his mind's eye, every rank, every regiment, from drummer boy to Bonaparte. To refresh his memory there were 47,000 other French prisoners in Britain. He began to make a complete set of 16-in. toy models of what...
...white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried his sapper's axe. The typical Napoleonic uniform included high stiff headgear, tight white trousers or very baggy ones, crossed bandoliers. Charles Sandré made one of each to the number of 900, including every rank in every regiment in Napoleon's armies...
When an elderly and portly flag-officer or captain was being received more hands were required to man the whip than in the case of a younger and presumably slighter lieutenant, say. So, the number of "side-boys" stationed at the ladder today varies with the rank of the guest being received. Also present-day "piping of the side" is a relic of the old order to walk away on the whip...
...whom nine were career men. Yet to be elected is a President who will appoint a career man to one of the service's four biggest posts-London, Paris, Berlin, Rome. Under Hoover three professionals became ambassadors and under Roosevelt, so far, the same number have received that rank. In Belgium, Greece, Spain and Rumania the President turned out career men to put in political protégés but he balanced the score by replacing politicos with career men in Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Turkey...
...vast industrial country seeking an outlet for her population and still more for her goods. She sees so much empty land; the United States struck me as an empty country and so did Australia. I should like to have seen a great English gesture-and I know it is rank heresy-in presenting to Japan that part of Australia which we cannot colonize ourselves. I believe that would change the whole atmosphere of the East...