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...semi-official Paris Journal des Débats agreed, called Mr. Houghton's alleged report "impolitic . . . defamatory to French policy . . . without precedent." The London Times backed up the sobriquet "Gloomy Gus," saying: "Mr. Houghton has apparently told his Government that the present state of Europe is hopeless...
...noxious a law suit as ever stank before an English judge, they introduced all the facts concerning their Oriental victim's indiscretions. And the British Government, "for the highest reasons of State, caused the indiscreet Sir Hari to be shielded as long as possible under the famed sobriquet of A.", which of course was finally penetrated...
...within the man, although he has long passed from those semicircles of desks and the sacrosanct precincts of the Chamber devoted to the deliberations of the Foreign Relations Committee, and although he passed through and beyond the U. S. Embassy at the Court of St. James's, the contemptuous sobriquet still sticks...
...without distinction. He was fished out of the half-pay pool by General Sir George Luck to write a cavalry book, which was subsequently called "a masterpiece of lucid explanation and terse precision." His literary ability had undoubtedly saved him from obscurity and earned for him the half true sobriquet of "the luckiest man in the Army." Later events proved the Army to be the luckier...
During the War, he was noted for a brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the recapture of Fort Douaumont and which earned for him the sobriquet of "the hero of Verdun." The following year he led his army into a brilliant but Pyrrhic victory on the Aisne...