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...What was the significance of the promotion of Lieut. General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget to full general? Did it mean that doughty Sir Bernard, veteran of 1940's Battle of Norway, commander of Britain's Home Forces, father of the realistic, live-ammunition "battle-school" training system, had been secretly assigned to lead an invasion...
...when they are struck (e.g., the splash of water). The "bow-wowers" hold that man began talking by mimicking the sounds of nature. The "pooh-poohers" believe that instinctive cries of pain, surprise, love or the like were the original source of words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through the larynx while making the gestures of eating produces mnyum, mnyuh). Dr. Thorndike calls this the "yum-yum" theory, waves it aside with the others...
...fresh and more terrible battle, the King decorated Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet; Air Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, overseas commander of the R. A. F.; Major General Bernard Charles Tolver Paget who directed the "historic" withdrawal from Andalsnes; and 40 members of the armed services from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the colonies. To a Mrs. Norman Cardwell, 45-year-old farmer's wife, he gave the Order of the British Empire for her singlehanded capture of a shot-down Nazi air pilot. Britons devoured her story in the newspapers...
...winged high over, out to sea, looking for the fugitive enemy to punish him some more. He had escaped in his boats by night, after pretending by day to deploy for rallies and counterattacks. This maneuver was directed by the British Army's redheaded commander, Major General Bernard Paget, 51, son of the late Bishop of Oxford. That same spring afternoon in London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, breaking the news to Parliament that Britain's arms south of Trondheim were completely outclassed, said in a pathetic attempt at enthusiasm that the Åndalsnes reembarkation was carried out "without losing...
...Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...