Word: canteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imprisoned again with 30 others in the Chateau d'lf, he seduced the canteen attendant, was moved to another prison, finally fled over the frontier (leaving still another mistress behind him). His sister and her lover, accompanied by a girl engaged to be married, joined him in Switzerland. Mirabeau seduced the other girl. A queer conflict developed with his sister -he wrote to his mistress of her in detail that admitted of incestuous relations; the letter fell into the hands of her father; she became the most rabid of all the enemies who pursued...
...tried running a merchant seamen's canteen. She gave that up and went to Rome. There she worked as a reporter for Hearst's International News Service. Said Dee-Dee: "I've been searching for some kind of work both useful and interesting." In 1946 she returned to the U.S. and revisited Shangri-La. Last spring she fluttered back to Paris, this time as a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar. There last week Dee-Dee got married again...
...order to burn on the family pyre." He escaped from the bunker but was captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul so hankered.") That day in the Chancellery canteen, where the soldiers and orderlies took their meals, there was a dance. Word went up from the Führerbunker to make less noise. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, he by shooting, she with poison; their bodies were carried outside to the garden and burned...
...hole. The man was lying just outside. He moaned horribly and he clutched at the ground with his ringers and rubbed his face back and forth across the sand. A great hole almost the size of a man's head opened below his belt. ... I noticed that his canteen was gone from one of his carriers but the cup was still there and . . . was half filled with blood...
...Canteen, Home in Indiana] was interrupted by the war, shows up as one of Hollywood's most unaffected and likable juveniles. Three young unknowns, intelligently entrusted with important roles, prove themselves more than worthy. The new faces, which are likely to be familiar ones soon...