Word: commandeering
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...made a Vice Admiral, later becoming Vice Minister of Marine, and in the Great War he was promoted to the command of the First Fleet with the rank of full Admiral. After the Armistice he became Minister of Marine and won his diplomatic spurs at the Washington Conference and his political spurs at home after he had become Prime Minister...
Died. At Cambridge, Mass., of old age, the Washington Elm, beneath which, on July 3,1775, George Washington first took supreme command of the Army of the United Colonies...
With his enthusiasm for Dickens, which gave birth to a delightful volume, Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play, is linked his enthusiasm for the Army and the doughboy, which occasioned The Command is Forward, and his unqualified admiration of Mrs. Fiske, which gave the world Mrs. Fiske?Her Views on Acting, Actors and the Problems of the Stage. To these three volumes we may add a recent collection of essays, Shouts and Murmurs...
...large news of a Norma Talmadge picture should concern Norma Talmadge. Accordingly?she is exceedingly beautiful and a moderately good actress. She can command and she can weep. She has a large constituency. For them it may be said that in Ashes of Vengeance she is a little better than usual...
...annually, for which he is entitled to one work of art, chosen by him in the order of his rank by lot. The artists donate one work annually for a period of three years. Some of the world's greatest artists are numbered in the group, whose works would command anywhere several times $600. On the other hand, there are many comparatively young and unknown, to whom this excellent plan comes as a godsend in marketing their wares. And everybody is happy. Outside buyers are not excluded, and already six works have been sold. As fast as gaps appear, other...