Word: barbey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said French Novelist Barbey d'Aurevilly: "Léon Bloy is a cathedral gargoyle who pours the waters of heaven down on the good and on the wicked...
...some way which Pascal could not quite fathom, the bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...
Instead, the Russians agreed to a Central Government landing at Yingkow, a minor Manchurian port. But when U.S. trans ports made ready to unload, the Russians suddenly pulled out, leaving Chinese Communists in control. In the face of threatened Communist opposition, U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey withdrew his transports...
Chinese Communists were still entrenched last week along the Great Wall, barring the advance of Central Government troops into Manchuria. U.S. marines stood within earshot of the crump of mortars and the boom of artillery. U.S. warships, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, refused to risk a landing of Government troops in Manchuria's Communist-held ports; the Admiral warned both Communists, and Nationalists that Manchuria might be lost in the squabble and emerge as an "independent state" like Outer Mongolia...
When Generalissimo Chiang's troops arrived off Yingkow they found a Chinese Communist garrison. U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, in charge of the transports, and General Tu promptly conferred with the Russians to arrange the transfer or neutralization of the Communists...