Word: subaltern
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...went to Sandhurst, which with some difficulty turned him into a cavalry subaltern. Then he went to Cuba, where he acquired a taste for cigars and siestas. He anticipated Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt's visit by two years. "Imagination falters," says Guedalla, "at the possibilities of an encounter on the same terrain...
...Bengazi-will directly reflect Ritchie's ability, it will be the high spot of his career, and of the offensive. Neil Ritchie is only 44. If only because of his youth, he may do better than Cunningham, who is ten years his senior. But his career, from subaltern in the Black Watch at 17 to Major General at 43, has been almost too formal to promise the flashes of unorthodoxy which usually herald great commanders...
...spite of a flat warning that their showing in battle would determine whether they would be sent home or kept in uniform, many a ranker, many a subaltern flubbed his battle shots. Through the maneuver area ran the rumor that when next week's battle was over the cleanout of substandard officers would be terrific-perhaps as high...
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was an empire builder of the Kipling school. All set to enter Oxford at the age of 19, he took a crack at the Army examinations for a lark, finished second out of 700 and wound up as a subaltern in the 13th Hussars in India. An expert at reconnaissance, he served with the 13th in the Afghan War in 1881. On service in Zululand he won the name of Impeesa (The Wolf that Never Sleeps) from the awed natives, moved on to Ashanti and Matabeleland. By the time of the Boer...
Flamboyant, cheeky Son Churchill, an ex-Hearst newsman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, had tried three times previously to become an M. P., but the Baldwin-Chamberlain clique, seeing him merely as an uncut, minor edition of Father Churchill, firmly snuffed each attempt. With the "official Conservatives" and competition both out, and his father in at No. 10 Downing Street, it was easy. Adrian Charles Moreing, M. P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, died and Randolph popped up as unopposed candidate in the by-election, was duly elected...