Word: bouillon
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...Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day and hour of the Passion, Godfrey of Bouillon stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem . . . After 70,000 Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
...Arab side, the Old City still looks much as it appeared to Godfrey de Bouillon, "Defender of the Holy Sepulcher," when he marched in with the First Crusaders almost 900 years ago. The Holy Sepulcher still stands, though in altered form. Everything around it has remained intact, including the Via Dolorosa along which Jesus climbed to Calvary...
...night this week to the opening of Manhattan's new $300,000 French movie theater, the Paris. They had paid $12.50 a head to look at one another and a movie (La Symphonic Pastorale), test the comfort of the 571 natural-birch seats, and sip coffee and bouillon in the lounge...
Maman, as pretty as ever at 48, thought most about le réveillon. One by one, she cooked the traditional dishes. There was bouillon to thaw the family out when they returned from Mass (the big beef bone was already in the pot). There were tourtières (spicy pork pies), rillettes (pork tidbits to be eaten with bread or thrown into the mouth like candy), croutons (crusty bread browned in pork fat), twelve dozen sugared beignets (doughnuts), tete a fromage (headcheese). Soon the kitchen, then the whole ten-room apartment on Fraser Street, was fragrant with the odor...
Josephine Baker, expatriate American whose bouncy scorchdancing made her the rich brown toast of Paris musicomedy for years, got ready for her third marriage. Husband No. I had been a Negro tap dancer, No. 2 a wealthy French manufacturer. No. 3-to-be: Jo Bouillon, top-ranking white French jazz bandsman...