Field-Marshal

But Flashman plainly had little liking for the legendary "Bobs", who was to become Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar; no doubt he was jealous of him.

Fiancée 2010

I remember young Fred Roberts (who's a Field-Marshal now, which shows you what pull these Addiscombe wallahs have got) once saying that everyone hated India for a month and then loved it forever.

Fiancée 2010

But a few weeks after its War Criminal ex-President, the late but deeply mendacious and unlamented Kurt Waldheim, shuffled off his mortal coil and headed for whatever personal Hell the Gods have decreed for him, the Austrian Government has, a mere sixty-two years after the surrender of Germany was effected, appropriately to a British Field-Marshal, galvanised itself into an urgent search for others of its home-grown Nazis.

The German & Austrian Reparations Commission 2007

But a few weeks after its War Criminal ex-President, the late but deeply mendacious and unlamented Kurt Waldheim, shuffled off his mortal coil and headed for whatever personal Hell the Gods have decreed for him, the Austrian Government has, a mere sixty-two years after the surrender of Germany was effected, appropriately to a British Field-Marshal, galvanised itself into an urgent search for others of its home-grown Nazis.

Archive 2007-07-15 2007

Robert Dole, the new Senate majority leader and likely standard-bearer for the party in the next presidential race, vowed, “When we recapture the White House, no American boys are going to be serving under the command of Field-Marshal Boutros Boutros-Ghali.”

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

But, as one German general would later say, “he is the only Field-Marshal in this war who won all his battles.”

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

But, as one German general would later say, “he is the only Field-Marshal in this war who won all his battles.”

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

I remember reading that General (Who later became a Field-Marshal) Erwin Rommel was complaining in 1943 that his superiors were happy to order anything done as long as it was done under someone else's signature, i.e. as long as it wasn't their responsibility.

Proper punishments 2007

Its no secret that, what with large hairy Pathans setting off bombs under his buttocks ever third day, the Field-Marshal would love to escape his beloved watan.

Archive 2005-09-01 ps 2005

My Jesustani friend Ms. P., who is married to my Hindustani friend Mr. M no relative of the manly-e-kaiser Field-Marshal recently claimed that eight out of ten hetrosexual desi men are in fact closet homosexuals, and the other two out of ten are confused.

Archive 2005-09-01 ps 2005