Word: crillon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found peace. They went freely to the homes of friends, found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
...published words a monument more remarkable for its smooth flow and clarity than for depth or originality of thought. An example of Brisbane's writing at its best: "To many fear of death is worse than death. . . . Death is soon over, fear is dreadful and prolonged agony. . . . Crillon, greatest fighter of them all, laid out in death, was found to have wounds on every inch of his body in front, not a scar on his back. Of him it could be said 'he never feared the face of any man.'" Some Brisbanalities: "The best cart horse...
Carter had been in Alaska before, mostly climbing Mt. Crillon, but also skiing...
...tiny station and on the platform stood tall Premier Flandin with short Foreign Minister Laval beaming welcome. Out hopped Chancellor Schuschnigg with his Foreign Minister, morose Dr. Egon Berger-Waldenegg. Stepping into a sleek Renault all four statesmen sped through Paris, delivered Fascist Schuschnigg safe at the ornate Hotel Crillon while patient police kept the duped and battling Reds and Pinks at the Gare de l'Est as busy as they could...
...explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership...