Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the French Revolution, Rémi Saint-Victor and the Marquise Corinne de Theuriet narrowly missed appointments with the guillotine. Now, after four years' imprisonment, Remi is back at the Polytechnic Institute where he had been Lavoisier's prize pupil; the marquise is the wife of complaisant...
The sudden explosion of indignation in press and public was sparked by a story in London's garish Sunday Pictorial, a newspaper which seldom earns such international attention. A Pictorial reporter had been given a lift in a limousine into The Hague, and had thereby "become the confidant of...
War Minister Amer. an earnest, soft-spoken farmer boy from the Upper Nile, is the No. 2 man of Egypt's revolutionary regime, the closest confidant of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the leader who would assume command of the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen...
No Honor Among Thieves. The case was ultimately broken by hard, routine investigation by the FBI and Boston police, and by a certain lack of honor among thieves. In two divisions of the loot, O'Keefe said, he was gypped out of $62,000. When he threatened reprisals, he...
Died. Henry Wickham Steed, 84, scholarly editor (1919-22) of the Times of London, owner and editor of the Review of Reviews (1923-30), author (The Hapsburg Monarchy, Vital Peace) and lecturer; in Wootton-by-Woodstock, England. Famed Pundit Steed joined the Times in 1896, served as foreign correspondent in...