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A final possibility is that red is the primary color in the Royal Standard, the Royal Coat of Arms, and is the color of St George's cross (St George is the patron saint of England). During the Napoleonic Wars , the British Regulars were a well disciplined group of foot soldiers with years of combat experience, including in the Americas, the ...
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler, created these puzzles at his home in Leatherhead. Dawe was headmaster of Strand School, which had been evacuated to Effingham, Surrey. Adjacent to the school was a large camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day, and as security around the camp was lax, there was unrestricted contact between ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
The British were coming, and Bucks homeowners had to roll out the red carpet and foot the bill, no questions asked Redcoats of Revolutionary times had Bucks County citizens pay for army of ...
Giubbe rosse (Red Coats), internationally released as Cormack of the Mounties, Killers of the Savage North, Red Coat and Royal Mounted Police, is a 1975 Italian adventure film co-written and directed by Joe D'Amato.
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