Word: subaltern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony was followed by a large buffet luncheon party at Admiralty House, complete with dukes and duchesses, where Winston downed two goblets of champagne, munched ice cream, commented lugubriously: "We must eat, we must...
Rejected Guest is at once a cracking, to-hell-with-it summary of Aldington's grievances and a fable which brings the wheel full circle, from war to war. Its hero is a "War baby," the by-blow of a high-minded 1914 romance between an aristocratic infantry subaltern (later killed) and the belle of a small industrial town. Brought up by his maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When...
When the librarian of Windsor Castle in 1930 dropped in the hands of 27-year-old Kenneth Clark the job of cataloguing the King's collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings, a rich artistic province was bestowed on an obscure subaltern. Clark's qualifications consisted mainly in the esteem of Critic Bernard Berenson (TIME, April 10) and two years of work with him in Florence. But with the job went a sure succession of official honors for tall, personable, athletic Kenneth Clark, and publication of the catalogue made him in due time the foremost modern authority on Leonardo da Vinci...
...years, handsome, six-foot, curly black-haired and swankly mustached Robert Henry Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle...
Curator of the department since 1924 has been portly, silver-haired Henry Preston Rossiter, born 52 years ago in Canada, indebted for much of his knowledge of prints to two years' service in France, first as a subaltern and finally as a major, with the Canadian Infantry. Rossiter's way of relieving the monotony of war was to study catalogs from every dealer in Paris and London, buy cheap prints which could be taken up into the line. Apart from this, the best thing he remembers about the War was driving a British tank, whose downslithers gave...