Word: cyr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three years at St. Cyr, France's West Point, young De Lattre became a lieutenant in the dragoons. He saw action in World War I; in 1921, a captain, he began service under France's late great Marshal Hubert Lyautey in Morocco; in 1929 De Lflttre was called to the general staff. By 1939, at 50, he was the youngest general in the French army...
Singer Sarah Vaughan, the "Bop" girl, was at the Chez Maurice; Roger Dann, "the young Maurice Chevalier," was at the Gayety vaudeville house, where Stripteaser Lili St. Cyr had just finished a four-week run. Besides the Gayety, there were strippers at the Roxy, Rockhead's Paradise and the Café St. Michel...
...because the longer horn "looked better"). In 1926, when he dropped some lyrics on the floor during a recording session, he quickly substituted nonsense syllables, and added "scat-singing" to jazz. He had formed "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five" (Satchmo, Clarinetist Johnny Dodds, Trombonist Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr on the banjo and second wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on the piano) to make recordings of his best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened...
...called Leclerc was born 42 years ago near Amiens. He graduated from Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. A major in 1940, he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped, riding a bicycle some 375 miles to the frontier...
Through the night the train puffed through the Alleghenies. In the morning, Corporal Harold Cyr, 23, of Hartford, Conn., explained why he hadn't slept: "I just lay there all night grinning...