Word: arc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controversy arose when the Stahlhelm (steel hermet), Monarchist journal, said that France's unknown soldier, who occupies a place of honor under the celebrated Arc de Triomphe, is none other than August Schultz of Württemburg. The Stahlhelm said that it had received the news from a Swiss source...
...very fact it has on occasion been hinted that he was a U. S. doughboy, a Senegalese rifleman. It has also been stated before that he was a German, but never proved. Suffice it to say that the decomposed body under the stone slabs of the driveway of the Arc de Triomphe is, to the minds of Frenchmen, a Frenchman and a Frenchman who gave his life that other Frenchmen might live in the liberty for which they fought...
Thereafter, the picture jumps to its task, reveals itself as one of the greatest of the camera spectacles. Carcassonne was borrowed by the Government to show the seige of the medieval town. If you look in your histories, you will find the tale?how Jean Hachette, Jeanne d'Arc of the days of Louis XI, saved the seige of Beauvais. Mingled in the yarn is a startling wolf attack. All the players were French, many of them borrowed from the Odeon and Comedie. Some of the technique was borrowed from the U. S. The wolves were borrowed from Russia. From...
...Author of: The Crock of Gold, Here Arc Ladies, The Charwoman's Daughter, Songs from the Clay, The Demi-Gods, Reincarnation Dcirdrc, In the Land of Youth. †England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the four kingdoms of the British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak...
...might have said that censorship is "vicious", or "subversive of truth". It would even have been better to say that George Washington picks the all-American football squad, and that Walter Camp was the first President of the United States: that Cleopatra was a saint, and that Joan of Arc a naughty, naughty girl; but never that censorship is un-American. Anything but that...