Word: ypres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported Engaged. Valerie French, 21, beauteous granddaughter of the late Field Marshal Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London. In 1926 Miss French was engaged to Henry Bradley Martin, Manhattan socialite. In 1929 she rushed to the U. S. to minister to him after he was injured in an automobile accident in Colorado. The engagement was subsequently broken...
...side of the English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely deep. "That, gentlemen," said the Prime Minister, "was Hill No. 60. Within a few minutes I think we shall have it." Captured twice by Germans, thrice by Britons, famed Hill No. 60, scene of the bitterest fighting in the Ypres Salient, was sapped and mined before the last successful British attack, blown up on April 17, 1915 by one of the most titanic explosions ever loosed by man in war. Last week British Brewer John J. Calder, who bought Hill No. 60 in 1920 for patriotic reasons, announced that...
...Cornelius Jansen Bishop of Ypres in his Augustinus suggested five heretical propopositions based on St. Augustine's Doctrine of Grace. One important group of still exists in Holland...
...story of John Bullock, young London clerk who joined up soon after war was declared, to fight for King & Country. In graphic, impressionistic, sometimes onomatopoetic prose, Author Williamson tells what happened to Private Bullock, from his raptured enlistment and training on Salisbury Plain to the attack beyond Ypres in 1917 when a shell left him with only one more leg to give his King & Country. "Then his heart instead of finishing its beat and pausing to beat again swelled out its beat into an ear-bursting agony and great lurid light that leapt out of his broken-apart body with...