Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were not having enough troubles, Great Britain learned last week that the Republic of San Marino, with its 950 soldiers and 39 dazzlingly uniformed officers, all "in splendid condition," had declared war against...
This month Hunter students get a new building and a new president. Their new building, a 16-story affair at 68th Street and Park Avenue, is as splendid as a cine-mansion, with thickly carpeted floors, teakwood walls. Among the first to move in (the building was not quite completed) was Hunter's new President George Nauman Shuster...
...dancing occasionally at the Santa Ana cabaret in Manila, an old haunt of his. He has lost none of his love for gaudy gaiety: his clothes are the wonder of the Islands. Frequently he dons jodhpurs for the office, an admiral's uniform for a cruise on his splendid white yacht, once the property of Oilman Edward Doheny. It is a legend in Manila that he planned to have a guard of honor for the Malacanan dressed in uniforms copied after those worn at Buckingham Palace, dropped the idea only after earnest advice from friends. He is the adored...
Stuart's raids around the Union Army, for example, were very effective; and the ability of those splendid horsemen to serve as the eyes of their Chief and to blind the enemy counted perhaps still more. The answer to Stuart's cavalry was simply still better cavalry and more of it. And so in the end, the Confederate horsemen were worn out or ridden down, and the scales were reversed. One can see no other answer to the offensive power of aviation and mechanized forces-almost ruinously expensive as that answer may be-than in having still more...
...waiting-for-Christmas policy would not work against the British. For anything he takes from them he will have to fight. To their scorn for Italy's passive game, Marshal Badoglio has a pat answer: they also serve who only stand and wait. The Allies thought it splendid of Italy to stay neutral last time until 1915, and then join them instead of the Kaiser. That released several French divisions for the first Battle of the Marne. Waiting again, Italy has again picked a winner, but this time not the Allies...