Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leftish German author of the pow erful novels, Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success, has written a leftish French novel which was inspired by Joan of Arc in somewhat the same way that Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette was inspired by the Virgin of Lourdes. But Feuchtwanger's inspiration is less successful...
...bloody feet which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice of her dead radical father, urging her to do likewise...
...Ballinger thought hard, remembered Joan of Arc, told the story, turned the election in her favor...
...Berlin radio told the world that flames swept the Rouen cathedral, destroying the roof, ruining the delicate, priceless rose window and melting the great bell which tolled when Joan of Arc burned...
...belief in his mission and in himself that he occasionally confused their identities. Once when Churchill pressed hard for some adjustment which struck De Gaulle as a backward step, he drew himself to his full, unshapely height: "Mr. Prime Minister, now that at last you have Joan of Arc on your side, you are still determined to burn her." As time went on, Churchill's patience with his solemn, intransigent protege wore thinner and thinner...