Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The return to Paris last week from the Near East of General Maxime Weygand, to report on his preparations for an Allied Army there, added interest to the commentary. With Finland getting hers from Russia, and with Rumania apparently earmarked next, it was newsworthy bluff, if not noteworthy fact, when...
"Looking as tough as saddle leather and about the same color from 20 years in the Moroccan sun and winds, the adjutant smiled, barked an order in Arabic and in less than a minute we were swinging off through the woods single file. Six riflemen were ahead and six behind...
In a staff car with standard camouflage (netting over the roof), King George motored to the chateau, in a provincial town well back of the British lines in France, where lives Britain's field commander, Viscount Gort. The King was accompanied by his brother H. R. H. Major General...
Dressed as a field marshal, his ungloved hands blue with cold, his boots splashed, King George, unflagging, visited airdromes and pillboxes, reviewed regiments, watched anti-aircraft rangefinders work, trenches being dug, marched in places through ankle-deep mud. As well as with soldiers, he chatted with newsmen, who were permitted...
"It took us another half an hour to cover that last two miles before we came to a great wood-covered hill roughly shaped like a loaf of bread. We zigzagged our way up the side through barbed-wire entanglements, passages and trenches to the summit.