Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to you as the only likely source of this information. The local library has only an American Who's Who. I trust that you will feel the subject of sufficient general interest to publish at least a sentence in answer...
...colorful General Boulanger came close to seizing the country. The colorful military cliques of the century's turn-on one' side the Catholics and reactionaries; on the other the Radical Socialists and Freemasons-gave France its Dreyfus case. Nowadays no French soldier votes and on the subject of politics the Army is known as la grande muette (the big dumb woman). Particularly in these times, France wants her soldiers mute and professional, and the mutest and most professional is Maurice Gamelin...
Even the few anecdotes about this thoroughly professional little man take on some of their subject's small, neat dignity. Last year, visiting a Chasseurs' encampment on a mountain plateau, he shook hands with familiar oldtimers and then was taken to the picket line to see some of the St. Bernards who do the outfit's liaison work. Gravely the General kneeled down and shook hands with the best of them...
When meteors smack the earth's surface, they are called meteorites. Under their new citizenship, these celestial migrants are subject to earthly laws, even the law of supply & demand. So, at least, a rotund, retired dentist & amateur geologist last week tried to prove at Chatham, Ontario...
...sang of tavern life, of trips to the country, of a ludicrous funeral procession, of his friends Movitz the painter, Mollberg the soldier, Ulla Winblad the kindly tart. A typical song, in minuet tempo, is Movitz Paints Mrs. Bergstrom, which takes two verses to reach a description of its subject...