Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home of Josephus Daniels, Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, set back from Cathedral Avenue in large, meticulously landscaped grounds, he entertains often and well. With the present Mrs. Phipps he displays to guests of the right social stamp generous hospitality in his Denver home, his Colorado mountain retreat, his Los Angeles estate...
...RETREAT-C. R. Benstead-Century...
...Though Retreat does not throw a beam of flattering light on army chaplains, the book has been praised by no less a churchman than gloomy Dean Inge, of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Said he: "One of the best and most original of the new war books." Author C. R. Benstead, 33, 6 ft., 5 in., entered the War as a private, won a commission in the Gunners. He served at the Somme, the Ancre, Vimy Ridge, Arras, Passchendaele, was with the Fifth Army in the near-disastrous spring of 1918 his book tells about...
...very respectable grocery business in Bury St. Edmunds (can you ask what country?). But he has been through the War, has no family left, and craves the quiet contemplation of the countryside. He buys a cottage in a nearby village, intending to use it as a week-end retreat; soon he is spending most of his time there. The life suits him, he is accepted by the villagers, becomes a familiar figure at the pub, goes into partnership with Farmer Kindred. His housekeeper falls in love with him, but he is too busy becoming a farmer to notice it, though...
State Above the State. How could the "Iron Man" possibly retreat without losing face after that? How dared he challenge the whole Conference? What did the irate German Socialist press-such as Die Welt am Montag-mean when they accused him of being "the head not only of a state within the State but of a state above the State...