Word: coeurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they caught a hitherto respected layman-gentle, white-mustached Henri Gotti, beadle of Sacré Coeur, who wore his plumed hat and carried his massive staff in parish processions. Each night, with francs filched from the almsbox, M. Gotti had slipped off to such fleshpots as the Moulin Rouge and Bal Tabarin. "Poor Gotti!" said worldly-wise parishioners. "Montmartre was too near the Sacré Coeur...
...Coeurs de Marbre. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Deputy Sheriff Cliff Johnson responded to a call at 6 a.m., hurried out to a narrow country road, broke it up between a couple of motorists who had been refusing for twelve hours to back up for each other...
...cement invasion barges had been invented when Crusader Richard Coeur de Lion captured the island of Cyprus in the Twelfth Century. The Knights of St. John had no guns nor explosives when they built a castled city on the Isle of Rhodes. Airplanes were undreamed-of when they buried their loot in the caverns on the island of Malta. But then as now, these islands were steppingstones toward the treasures of Egypt and the Holy land. Men's weapons have changed but the routes of conquest remain...
Words & Weasels. The British and U.S. decision to help Russia and the Pope's refusal to join Adolf Coeur de Lion's crusade kept the Nazi campaign from gaining headway among the more statesmanlike of Latin America's leaders. Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo joined Brazil's Getulio Vargas and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in broadcasting good-neighborly greetings to the U.S. on the Fourth of July...
...April 6, 1199, Richard Coeur de Lion died. On April 6, 1580, an earthquake destroyed part of London. George Washington was elected first President of the U.S. on April 6, 1789, and on April 6, 1909, Admiral Peary reached the North Pole. On April 6, 1917, the U.S. declared war on Germany...