Word: aid-de-camp
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...nightmare was the same nearly everywhere: the investigators showed up in Paris last fall in the company of former Senate Page Boy Joseph Stewart, 22, who came along as aid-de-camp. The women spent 20 days in Paris, appeared only rarely at the embassy. A typical business request: a list of USIS employees, salaries, etc.-the kind of information that is always available in Washington. For the rest of their stay, the investigators searchingly investigated shops, restaurants, bars, entertained themselves to exhaustion...
...Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of 'taking over Chinchow by Christmas...
...tight-lipped General Shigeru Honjo insisted his troops were moving out "to clear the country of bandits," but added that Chinese evacuation of Chinchow "is now absolutely imperative." Seemingly he thought that Chinchow might be taken without bloodshed, the Chinese soldiers merely scattering like chaff. Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of "taking over Chinchow by Christmas...
...July 24 next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...
Lionel, his aid-de-camp; a manslayer and a lady-killer. All he asks is a chance, W. K. Draper-Thibaut, Joan's papa, and a tassel on his daughter's apron string, G. C. Adams...
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