Word: commandeering
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...solace of many a dowager at Paris is the ubiquitous gigolo, a male who lurks in smart dancing places and is ready, for a modest tip, to offer gallantries to ladies whose age or ugliness induces them to buy what others can command...
Seamen explained, to landlubbers, last week, that a captain turns over the management of his ship to the commander and when an admiral comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten...
...Cardinal's red hat.*Last week, tall, genial in his talk and warmly sensitive, looking much older than he did a few years ago, still carrying the impression of an unintentional austerity, of power, Cardinal Gasquet said to reporters that in order to fulfill the Pope's command: "I have given up everything to which I was attached in life." It was possible to imagine in the Cardinal a worthy successor to those proud Benedictines, monks of the Congregation of St. Maur-sur-Loire who helped to give the order its great tradition of scholarsh/p and learning: even...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-The love light glisters in a diplomat's eyes as he directs a slip of state (TIME...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-Affaires of state are a diplomat's job and nobody's business (TIME...