Word: crillon
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When Mayor Walker reached Paris last week and took a suite at the Hotel Crillon, correspondents nocked in to ask him about his travelling companion. Unabashed, the Mayor declared: "Dave Maier is a true friend of mine. There's the little Dutchman. Get a good look...
...whirls and turns, struggles with its free fore feet, forces its angry head above the water time and again. No human being, no Crillon or Du Guesclin,* could offer equal resistance to inevitable fate...
...Louis Balbis de Berton de Crillon (1543-1615) French soldier, called by Henry IV "the bravest of the brave." He served under Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX as well as Henrys III and IV. He was not present at and strongly condemned the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (1572), which was instigated by King Charles's mother, Catherine de' Medici. The famed Paris hotel on La Place de la Concorde was named for him. Bertrand Du Guesclin (1320 -1380), constable of France, was the most famed French warrior...
...direct contrast were the events of last week. Scarcely had Mr. Hearst arrived at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, after a month of travel in Germany and Italy's lake country, when an officer of the Sûreté Général (Secret Service) visited him with a request from the Ministry of Interior to vacate the country within 36 hours. Publisher Hearst spurned the day's grace, took the afternoon boat-train for London. Next day the French Premier explained that the expulsion had its origin in the famed Horan affair...
...correct quotation ''Hang yourself, my pood Crillon. We [the royal "we"] were at Arques, you were not there." Justice Brandeis has a prodigious memory, accurate to minute details. His error may have been one of consonant association. Ivry is pronounced almost exactly like Ivhri, Hebrew word for Hebrew...