Word: commandeering
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Beginning by raising salaries, even paying the difference out of her own pocket, "Cissy" Patterson easily ingratiated herself with her staff. She dashes to the office in an open 16-cylinder Cadillac, sometimes in riding habit, sometimes in evening dress. At her command is the vocabulary of a circulation-wrangler. Often she entertains her reporters in the magnificent house on Dupont Circle (formerly Daisy Harriman's) where the Coolidges stayed following the White House fire. Also she has bought and is rebuilding the famed Dower House near Rosaryville, Md., once owned by Lord Baltimore...
Built 1759-61. Being Tory property, the church was used as a barracks by the provincial troops during the seige of Boston and the lead pipes of the organ were melted into pullets. When Washington took command of the Continental Army, the church was restored as a house of worship. The pew used by Washington has remained undisturbed...
...spot designated by a tablet in the highway, stood the giant elm beneath which Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. The elm collapsed...
...last we are at Armageddon. All the merciless forces of annihilation are arrayed for the final battle against the American people. If we lose this battle, the Government will be overwhelmed with irretrievable disaster. * * * On the eve of this decisive battle Franklin D. Roosevelt is the Nation's Commander in Chief. * * * His order is not to watch and wait; it is not to retreat; his thunderous, thrilling command is 'Forward, march.'" In the spirit of those words the Congress and the President worked shoulder to shoulder. Perhaps it would be too much to say now that the battle is already...
...ready to believe in his feeling for Irina (Kay Francis), at whose country house his troops have been quartered. The day when her robust old husband Dushan (Walter Huston) finds out is also the day when Geza is in danger of being court-martialed by the officer in command of the town. Irina goes to warn him to escape. Dushan follows to create a scene. The commanding officer arrives last of all but Dushan has meanwhile made up his mind how to handle his situation. He persuades Captain Panto to accompany him in pursuit of the lovers, who are really...