Word: roget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright names the Calumet horses as most owners do-starting with the names of the sire and dam, going on from there with the aid of dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, friends' suggestions, etc. She has found that horses named after friends seldom turn out well...
...British seemed reluctant to take another step that might further disrupt relations with their essential, difficult ally. French General Fernand Oliva-Roget suddenly turned up in Paris, where he denied that his shelling of Damascus had been "indiscriminate." He said that the outbreaks had been deliberately provoked by Syrian police in the hope of British intervention. How much the British had encouraged the demonstrators he would not guess, but he added darkly that the identity of British agents in Syria was "perfectly well known...
...them, said Oliva-Roget, was Colonel William Frank ("Pete") Stirling, who, during the last war, was the good right hand of the late, famed T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"). Oliva-Roget said that Colonel Stirling was now known as "I'homme au chien" because, in full uniform, he walked the streets of Damascus with a big black...
...helpless. British tanks had nuzzled up to the French positions. While the city rang with welcome to the British, and Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
Paget brought General Humbolt up from Beirut to show him what the French Army had done to Damascus. After touring the streets in a British staff car, Humbolt sacked Roget. The Arabs had neither forgotten nor forgiven the shelling of Damascus by the French in 1925. Now they recalled that the French Government removed General Maurice Sarrail for that atrocity-and that the city was shelled again the following year...