Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, Archbishop Maurice Feltin celebrated a special Mass at Notre Dame. At the Sorbonne, more than 100 blind delegates from 22 countries assembled for a memorial in Braille's honor. Meanwhile, the citizens of Coupvray performed a ceremony of their own. They unearthed Braille's remains, and, keeping a relic for themselves, sent the coffin to Paris. There, escorted by a column of blind men, each armed with a white cane, Braille's body was finally placed where Frenchmen felt it rightfully belonged-in the Panthéon, France's Westminster Abbey...
...Elizabeth Arden's, or downing Martinis ("Très sec, avec le Gordon's gin") at Harry's New York Bar, they would always find some familiar face. They took their cigars and baby Brownies into Sacré-Coeur, climbed to the top of Notre Dame, brushed shoulders with Bohemia in cellar nightclubs on the Left Bank, gave free advice to street artists painting in Montmartre. They drove down the Loire valley searching out new restaurants and old châteaux (now floodlit at night for American eyes), and tried not to notice the scrawled Communist signs...
Vacation over, '27 came back for his last term of residence. One of the more pleasing aspects of the Spring Term was the hockey team, which was sweeping over Dartmouth and Yale for the Eastern title. In the game against Notre Dame, won 7 to 0, '27 saw the strange sight of a Boston crowd cheering the Crimson as the ice became a Donnybrook. The track team was also winning, with Ellsworth Haggerty and Al Miller continuing to pace the field. The squash team beat Yale and took another national title...
...Manhattan's auction galleries three months ago, Dealer Shore had come across an interesting painting of a young woman done on six small pieces of canvas sewed together. He picked it up for $100, and then on a hunch showed it to Maurice H. Goldblatt, director of Notre Dame's university art gallery. Director Goldblatt's verdict: the old painting is a long-lost portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by the 16th century Renaissance master Bartolommeo Veneto. Possible value...
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