Word: carrejour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Franklin Roosevelt offered him the ambassadorship to Belgium. "What could be more interesting," Roosevelt said to him, "than the carrejour [crossroads] of Europe in the closing days of the war?" Margaret Sawyer had died in 1937 after bearing him five children. In 1942 Charles Sawyer had married again: his bride was handsome Countess Elizabeth de Veyrac, nee Lippelman, a neighbor and onetime professional dancer. He took her off to Belgium. He escaped machine-gunning by a Nazi flyer on New Year's Eve, 1944, made friends among the Belgians by his understanding and sympathy, and returned...
| 1 |