Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a tense moment, he reported, before noon at the Hôtel des Invalides, before the Governor surrendered to 20,000 citizens headed by the French Guard. The Governor de Launay, displayed the white flag and opened the gates, but drew up the drawbridge after soldiers and citizens entered, and his troops opened fire, killing 30. After three hours of cannonading the walls were breached and "The great and important scene now followed. The GOVERNOR, the PRINCE, the FORT MAJOR and Officers were conveyed to the HOTEL DE VILLE, and after a SHORT TRIAL . . . M. DE LAUNAY...
...They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just in time. Unnamed secret policemen conferred with Scotland Yard. A suave and charming investment broker ("known in political circles throughout Europe") ran luxurious offices in the Place de la Madeleine, had $13,250,000 in Nazi gold to spend, used two or three clever and beautiful women, two clever private detectives, and a Dictaphone, in carrying on his devious and expensive work...
...report her birth; 2) to tell about her marriage; 3) to describe how happy Donna Rachele was at her marriage. When a complete, unexpurgated account of Mussolini's life is finally written, Daughter Edda may, as one of Europe's most successful intriguers and string-pullers, well de serve chapters instead of sentences...
...been shot. Among the 35: Antonio Hermosilla, editor of Madrid's Leftist La Libertad; Modesto Sánchez Monreal, editor of Madrid's Leftish El Sol; Emilio Gabás, onetime editor of Madrid's El Socialista; Federico Moreno, editor of Zaragoza's Heraldo de Aragón; and Javier Bueno, who was editor of Oviedo's Avance and one of Spain's greatest newspapermen...
Married. Sacha Guitry, 54, flamboyant French actor-playwright-producer; and Genevieve de Seréville, 18, beauteous, stagestruck debutante; he for the fourth time (other brides: Charlotte Lysés, Yvonne Printemps, Jacqueline Delubac); in Versailles. Hour before the wedding Actor Guitry personally invited President & Mme Lebrun. They hedged, finally sent a minor official in their stead...