Word: crillon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis at the Crillon. In Britain, the Thames was frozen over at Windsor, and primroses just budding in Wales withered in the frost. Alarming reports came from Kent, where snowed-in pubs were running out of beer. But the cold wave brought far more serious hardships and economic dangers to Britain. Trains and trucks stood idle, schools and factories had to shut down as the coal shortage shut off heat and electric power. Office workers strained their eyes by candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold...
Through these shadows, and a dozen others, one reality loomed: UNO was beginning to function. When the League of Nations opened the New York Times had gazed sadly at its own nonparticipating country and paraphrased Voltaire: † "Hang yourself, Crillon, for there has been glorious fighting and you were not here...
...turn was paraphrasing Henry IV, who was sympathizing with his brave warrior, Louis Balbis de Berton de Crillon, for being wounded in the battle of Tours bridge and thus missing the battle of Arques...
...indifferent horseman) from a parachute. He carried Mix through a blast of dynamite which knocked a hole in Tony's side. He developed social graces. He managed to keep a straight face when he was honored in the dining rooms of the Savoy in London, the Crillon in Paris, the Astor in Manhattan, and when he was given quarters in the check room of Detroit's Book Cadillac. Tom Mix used to boast gratefully that Tony had earned him more than any race horse in history. (Earnings of Whirlaway: $511,406; of Tom & Tony...
...April 1940 a tired refugee and his wife got off a train at the Gare du Nord in Paris and proceeded to the sumptuous Hotel Crillon. They were Herr and Frau Thyssen. Emery Reves, president of Co-operation Publication Co. (international newspaper syndicate), persuaded him to write and publish his memoirs. Reves, Thyssen, a collaborator and a secretary went to Monte Carlo. Thyssen, says Reves, dictated three solid hours every day, then revised and approved the copy...