Word: bourges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge of the rock-bedded river which separates Puigcerda from the French border village of Bourg-Madame. All of Catalonia was theirs. On the other side of the river, less than 500 yards away, several thousand Loyalist soldiers dumped their arms and ammunition into piles at the roadside and tramped dejectedly off to French concentration camps...
...unconsciousness for writing the phrase "snowflakes fluttering from a pitilessly gray heavenly roof." Heaven, it seemed, was never pitiless. After morning prayers he took snuff, which made him sneeze so vehemently that he staggered. This staggering, says the author, was the only physical exercise he ever took. > In Bourg, France, where van Paassen lived for a time, he stopped to chat with a gravedigger, said he was on his way to Paris to write political notes on Laval. From the bottom of a slimy pit, tossing up half-rotten skulls to make room for a new corpse, the gravedigger shook...
Meantime, at the French border village of Bourg-Madame, Mr. Sikorski was putting on a good show...
...Students' League of New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won the Cresson scholarship two years in succession, studied painting in Vienna in 1919-20 when Austria was falling to pieces. Director Max Reinhardt was doing magnificent things on the stage of the Bourg Theatre. After one season in Detroit, Jo Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse productions as The Guardsman, The Wild Duck, Strange Interlude, Street Scene, first, second and third Little Shows...
...priest, seeing that many pilgrims used the pass on their way to Rome, founded a hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit to Rome, he petitioned the Pope to assign the charge to the Augustinian monks. Today there are about 40 St. Bernard brothers, some at the Great Pass, some at the Little Pass, some in neighboring parishes...