Word: trafalgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubted whether Harvard ever received a gift which combined the qualities of abiding elemental human interest, with the highest range of international historical importance, more inextricably interwoven than in the collection of Lord Nelson letters and documents formed by Joseph Husband, '08. Trafalgar saved the British Empire, to all appearances, and Emma, Lady Hamilton, saved Nelson from seeming more than human Mr. Husband's collection brought to Harvard last October fifty letters and documents signed by Nelson, and half as many by Lady Hamilton, together with over a hundred other documents connected with the career of the greatest of English...
Free Show. All along the Mall from Buckingham Palace nearly to Trafalgar Square stretched a double row of shiny limousines bearing debutantes, peeresses, diplomats and their wives to Her Majesty's first Court of the season. Stalled by the formality of the occasion, the cars were surrounded by a dense, jostling mass of working girls, tired shoppers and messenger boys, who scrambled like children at the Zoo for a peek at High Society before going home to tea. The great state show soon to take place inside the palace was not for them. This was their -show...
From grave, Cyclopean Lord Nelson, perched on his column in Trafalgar Square, to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London is full of statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop...
...Edmund Robert Fremantle, 92, of London, "Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland (1916). "When you see ships...
...Cook took over the command of his army after its 11-day march from Wales, he having marched only part of two days with them. Anxious London "bobbies" gave them unnecessary protection as they swung through the main streets to the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar square, where a Labor Magna Charta was read. There followed a meeting with Labor...