Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider the possibility of another War and another "darkest time," Britain was last week inclined to take no chance of alienating that same "most remarkable community," even at the risk of antagonizing Britain's vast Moslem populations. In prospect for Palestine was one of those muddling-through, negotiating, chieftain-bribing, bloody campaigns of counterterrorism familiar in the history of British genius for government...
Sent out with a patrol to Certain Death, Colman stalls for time in the tent of an Arab chieftain who turns out to have been an Oxford classmate. In a sequence which should induce Hollywood to investigate England's famed Victorian society novelist further, the Arab remarks: "You remember our soccer games? Well, we shall play soccer, on horseback. And you, ho-ho, shall be the ball...
...British Cabinet. Reason: He had nothing to do. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin regretfully accepted the resignation. The bluest of blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke of Northumberland, he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror's chieftain, William ("als Gernons"*) de Percy. A brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, he has served in the Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929. He is still, a Governor of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, frequently visits...
...Nurse Associations; the composition, for pianoforte, of Song-Flowers from A Child's Garden of Verses; and the assemblage, at the suggestion of Lord Kitchener, of the world's finest collection of Scottish soldiers' stocking tops. In 1899 Katharine Marjory Ramsay married the Duke of Atholl, chieftain of all the Murrays, colonel-in-chief of the Scottish Horse Scouts, a gallant soldier and the owner of 202,000 Scottish acres. Said the Duchess last week : "I do think the Committee should not overlook the practical type of boy who wants to be out in the world making...
...Section, who attends to such matters as having Russian engineers, after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised...