Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot to murder Rasputin originated in a Guards regiment in which Prince Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri were serving. They enlisted the aid of Vladimir Purishkevitch, a member of the Duma. When lecherous Rasputin reached the Youssoupov palace on the night of Dec. 16, servants were kept at the head of the stairs, talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide...
...clock guns boomed in the distance, followed by the dull patter of muffled drums.* A detachment of mounted police in blue capes and white helmets led the procession. Then came the Guides, Belgium's crack infantry regiment, with little tassels dangling from their caps. British sailors followed, and behind them a dismounted detachment of the 5th Inniskilling Dragoons, the British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment...
...Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective," the local German bigwig. She is even unhistorically rescued at the end, after being condemned to death. One touch of war is thrown in. A German regiment, worshipping in an open field on a Sunday, is made one with God through the neat work of three British planes an unusual thing to see in a British-made film...
GENTLEMEN-THE REGIMENT!-Hugh Talbot-Harper ($2.50). Weather-wise scanners of the literary skies say the prevailing winds are swinging into the romantic quarter. Anthony Adverse provided a whole bale of straws. And historical romances are now the order of the day. Though Author Talbot's Gentlemen-The Regiment! contains one or two scenes that certainly would not have amused Her Britannic Majesty, its general tone is dashingly Victorian. In mid-19th Century, when well-bred wives called their husbands "Mr." even in bed, the English county town of Harwick centred proudly in its two famed infantry regiments...
...William Ford Tractor Sales" when Henry began manufacturing tractors, prospered selling tractors and farm implements, ten years ago moved to larger quarters in Highland Park, employed 40 men. Present Economic Status: Henry: not worth so much as he once was, but still worth so many hundred millions that a regiment of unemployed accountants would find work figuring out how many. William : a petitioner in bankruptcy ; the liabilities of his company $412,900; its assets, none; his own assets, the red brick house he lives in near Dearborn's Main Street, a few shares of stock (which he offers...