Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Herman Ruth (ne Gerhardt), New York's happy-go-lucky Bambino, broke fewer records but drew more fans. He too could break up a ball game singlehanded. Before he became the "Sultan of Swat," the Babe was a good southpaw for the Boston Red Sox. In two World Series (1916 and 1918), he pitched a total of 29 consecutive innings without allowing a run. Twice, in later World Series, he hit three home runs in one game. Ruth once scored 60 homers in one season...
...which Germans began working on in 1888, left four-sevenths completed in 1914) was intended to make the Kaiser's dream come true. The mere thought of that 1,850-mile rail line for 15 years kept the British lion sleepless and roaring. To prove his friendship for Sultan Abdul Hamid's Turkey, owner of the roadbed, Wilhelm II visited Damascus in 1898, dropped a wreath on the tomb of Saladin (Saracen Napoleon during the Crusades), expansively designated himself friend of the world's then 300,000,000 Moslems, half of whom were living under the Union...
...four years 1919-23 he accomplished seven tasks that were far harder than changing names : 1) he drove out the Sultan and 2) ended the power of the Caliphate; 3) fought and won a war with the Greeks; 4) bluffed Great Britain to a standstill when a British Army tried to keep him from crossing the Dardanelles after the Greek collapse; 5) wrote a republican constitution and created a parliament; then 6) became Turkey's dictator; 7) ended foreign judicial rights and established frontiers that gave Turkey control of the Dardanelles...
Last week there was a small but hopeful sign that the U.S. Army might be on the way to getting tough-tough enough to face modern military competition. Major General Daniel Isom Sultan was ordered to command of the 38th (National Guard) Division at Camp Shelby, Miss. He was the first Regular Army officer in this emergency to replace the National Guard commander of a Guard division. He will not be the last. Of the 17 National Guard divisions which went to France with the A.E.F., only one (the 27th) had its original commander (Major General John...
...Bank Dick (Universal) is the long-awaited reward for followers of cob-nosed Comedian W. C. Fields. The reward is the more rewarding because his recent pictures were impeded by the disconcerting presence of irrelevant comics. In this one, the Sultan of Sloth finally achieves the kind of delightful outrage which has made his fan list long & faithful. There are 74 minutes of almost clear Fields-as much a one-man show as the fences of cinema formula will allow...