Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down through the centuries, Britain has delighted to honor its victorious commanders with money and peerages. The Duke of Wellington and Winston Churchill's armored ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, collected spectacular titles, estates and cash fortunes for their exploits. After World War I, Field Marshal Haig and Admiral of the Fleet Beatty received earldoms and ?100,000 apiece...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery carried a pair of worn boots into Hoby's Bootshop in London's West End on Friday, asked for repairs by "next Tuesday . . . I'll be needing them in Germany." Hoby's-recalling that Wellington wore his Hoby boots at Waterloo, that Nelson died in his at Trafalgar-broke its two-to-three-weeks-for-repairs rule, promised delivery...
...best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!" bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty summoned him back from shore leave. "It will take me away from you," he told his gorgeous wife Barbara (the future Duke of Wellington's sister). "Darling," she answered, "six months of the kind of happiness you have given me is more than any woman deserves." A few days later, Sir Horatio, flying a commodore's pendant, was beat ing up the Channel in the 900-man ship of the line Nonsuch, followed by two sloops, two bomb...
...Earl of Gillenwater, who used to spend his time in drawing rooms, now is seen only as the heroic pilot of a Wellington or skipper of the Marlborough. The metamorphosis of Noel Coward left a big pair of shoes unfilled until Clive Brook stepped...
...Duke of Wellington, 31, sixth of his line, who was also a Netherlands prince, a Spanish grandee, a Portuguese count. He was killed in Italy last year. To a mess steward who doubted his identity, the Duke once explained: "It's the same name so many pubs have...