Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united France...
Discovered at the Home for Incurables in The Bronx was one of the great Victorian illustrators, 85-year-old Reginald Bathurst Birch, illustrator of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The courtly bon vivant of the '80s, half-blind and broke, had no complaints except against Fauntleroy. It was "about the worst thing that ever happened to me," he said. The lace-and-velvet wrapped little hero's fame had obscured everything else the artist had done. At present, he admitted, "you can say that I'm just a little hors de combat...
More than a military campaign ended last week on hilly Cap Bon. Adolf Hitler's "Plan-Süd" (Southern Plan) for an African-Middle Eastern Empire also collapsed, and with it Italy's hopes of empire...
After the capture of Tunis, Anderson's army paused to fight very few engagements with the enemy but instead pushed out toward Cap Bon in many divergent columns. In principle they infiltrated the enemy much as the Japs infiltrated the British in Malaya and Burma. German and Italian units were badly split and their communications were cut. Liaison was impossible. Some corps and division headquarters surrendered before their soldiers had the order to cease fire...
...garish makeup, screams in black, tricky headlines. Sample: MRS. COOLIDGE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO RUN (when the former President's wife refused the commandership of Massachusetts Women's Defense Corps). Last week the evening Globe headlined a story of Axis forces trapped on Tunisia's Cap Bon: BOTTLED IN BON...