Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dashed - after the service - Mrs. Parmely Herrick and Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
...congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...
...Passion of Joan of Arc- Unforgettable French Reproduction of the trial and death of a saint...
...Passion of Joan of Arc (French). You might not think there could be any new way of telling a story in pictures, until you see this film in which the trial and death of Joan of Arc are told, in silence, by the expression of faces not disfigured by make-up and photographed from all angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured...
Everywhere in Paris people mourned le brave Herrick. The ambassador, 74, had insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday...