Word: serjeant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being a shy and rather self-conscious nation, and disliking any display of sentiment, we endeavour to conceal our real feelings towards such a calling as the soldier's by being flippant about it - cracking jokes on the subject - jokes about red tape, brass-hats, bully beef, and serjeant-majors. All of which is harmless enough...
...Army freshmen: "A young British officer knows all his men by sight and name and takes a personal interest in each. If a man is in any private trouble of his own, he has merely to ask for an interview with his officer (through the medium of a Serjeant or other non-commissioned officer) and it will be granted at once. Finally, in action, his officer never asks a soldier to go anywhere he himself is not prepared to lead the way. Such traditions as these are the pride of the British Army, and the envy of every other...
Died. Sir Henry Fielding ("Mr. Harry") Dickens, K. C., 84, British jurist, onetime (1917-32; Common Serjeant of the City of London, sixth son, tenth and last surviving child of Charles Dickens; of injuries suffered last fortnight when he was struck by a motorcycle; in a shabby municipal hospital where he was taken after the accident. Unlike his father's "Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz" and "Mr. Serjeant Snubbin" he was rated a kindly judge...
...Sewall. The portrait of Maynard is by Kneller and is regarded as one of the finest paintings in the School's collection. Maynard, who served under Cromwell and Charles II, was a great legal scholar and edited the Year Books. The portrait represents him in his red robe as serjeant-at-law and the special head dress--the coif--of the serjeants...