Word: commandered
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...gilded mirrors that reach to the ceiling. His hair is not cut short like most boys'. His eyes are so brightly black one wonders at the Gallo family's assurance of his recovery from recent illness. He raps for attention quite oblivious of the incongruity of his command. Some of the musicians follow his baton with flashes of pride, for they too are Gallos, and this Gallo boy is the world's young est conductor. On May 14, he will give a public performance in the Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers...
Alexander I, harassed king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, received the resignation of Premier Nikola T. Uzunovitch last week, as the shaky coalition supporting his Cabinet collapsed amid a bedlam of local party squabbles. By His Majesty's command onetime Minister of Public Works Velja Vaounkitchivitch formed a seemingly most unstable Cabinet upon a coalition of Radicals and Democrats, parties hitherto bitterly opposed...
Significance: The Navy is said to have developed a secret of gunnery control which makes for long-range accuracy and thus assures the continued building of super-dreadnaughts with big guns. Said Capt. William Cluverius, in command of the West Virginia: "It was the finest material performance yet recorded in guns, planes and machinery. All officers are convinced this firing off Cuba will exercise a profound effect on the naval development of all nations...
...Mary did not seem embarrassed or say, "Shh!" Her face lighted, she nodded, and with a royal finger discreetly indicated to Sir James a door. He should go through, and turn thus and thus. Then he would find Nurse Knight and should tell her by the Queen-Empress' command to show him the Sleeping Princess...
When famed Manhattan lawyer Samuel Untermyer reached Bangkok, Siam, recently, on the world cruise of the S. S. Belgenland he was greeted with no lilting stanzas, but rather by an imperial "command" to appear at the Siamese Court and be received in audience by perky little King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March 8, 1926) and his placid, portly Queen...