Word: grenadiere
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Prince Charles, quietly celebrating his first birthday at Clarence House, had his accomplishments summed up for him by the British press, which unbent to the point of talking a little baby talk. The royal child weighs 25 Ibs., is tall for his age, has six teeth, already has taken his...
Gloucester's mount got out of hand and had to be pulled back into line by two Guards officers. Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly. The King looked around anxiously as his daughter, trimly uniformed as a Colonel of the...
Black-haired, dark-browed Gerard Graham Dennis seemed to have been born to live brazenly. He had a grenadier's imperious good looks, and a gentleman's taste in clothes. He liked champagne, dance music, danger and girls, especially brunettes with high cheek bones. He was endowed with...
The Nihilists gave way to the King George for President Club in '28. This band of Royalists adopted a platform urging "amsigamation of Canada and the U. S., Grenadier Guards in place of Harvard cops, and cascara for Farmer's Relief." The Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04...
A believer in barter, he scandalized a housemaster at Eton by trying to pay for his son's education in pigs and potatoes. And when Osbert went to World War I with the Grenadier Guards, father Sitwell had, as usual, a practical suggestion to make. "Directly you hear the...