Word: andr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ACCUSE!-THE MEN WHO BETRAYED FRANCE- André Simone-Dial...
TRAGEDY IN FRANCE-André Maurois-Harper...
There is no Zola to describe The Debacle of 1940. But the eyewitness reports have already begun. Four important books now report how Norway was seized, why Holland fell, why France folded. One is by a Norwegian (Carl J. Hambro). Two are by Frenchmen (Andr Maurois, André Simone). One is by a U. S. woman (Clare Boothe...
After the war another member of the Pernod dynasty, Jules, whose firm was called Pernod Pere et Fils, concocted an aperitif that tasted much like absinthe but was less bitter, contained no wormwood. This he called Pernod Anise. In 1920 a M. André Hémard produced a something that could scarcely be distinguished from Pernod Anise and called it L'Amourette. Frenchmen took to it delightedly. By 1928 the original firm of Pernod Fils was back in the business, and all three makers of wormwoodless absinthe were united in the Société des Etablissements Pernod...
...London and Halifax, bemonocled French Journalist André Géraud ("Pertinax"), wanted by the Petain Government for spreading false information, slipped into Manhattan last week. Asked what he thought of England's chance of fighting off a German invasion. Anglophile Géraud replied hopefully: "That they can stop the Nazis is more than wishful thinking...