Word: beret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andre Laguerre of our Paris bureau reported the incident of the small Frenchman in a big beret who drove up to the Luxembourg Palace, where some 1.200 delegates have been trying to write the peace, prepared to do business with the authorities in charge. He parked his car, which was equipped with a padlocked trailer loaded with intricate contraptions, and sent in his card to the secretariat. He was given an immediate audience...
...Serge Koussevitzky was in his favorite summer pasture last week, and frisky as a yearling. His costume-grey flannel trousers, blue flannel jacket, white wool beret and white shoes-made him look like a jaunty boulevardier at the beach. Visitors to Tanglewood, Dr. Koussevitzky's music colony near Lenox, Mass., try to compliment the maestro by calling it "an American Salzburg...
...Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...
...special envoy hurried away, the speaker's lamp started burning a hole through the lampshade beret...
Monty let them sit, another ten minutes, while he dressed for the occasion. He donned a freshly pressed battle jacket, with the marshal's baton woven on the shoulder tabs. A tiny gold watch chain stretched from pocket to pocket, under his decoration ribbons. The familiar black beret was at the usual jaunty angle. Monty strolled slowly to the tent where the Germans waited. As he passed the assembled war correspondents he said softly: "This is a very big moment...