Word: elyse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic was thick on Paris' imposing Champs Elysées. A sleek Cadillac bearing U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson swung around the Rond-Point, headed for the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay. Round the other side, headed in the opposite direction, sped a Citro...
The Paseo had been laid out by the Emperor Maximilian in 1865 as a shortcut from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma...
There wasn't any. But in Paris last week, even without music, Choreographer David Lichine's ballet The Creation, danced by the Ballets des Champs-Elysées, was the kind of new sensation that Parisians save their loudest bravos for.* Part of the cheers were for France...
When six carloads of reinforcements arrived on the Champs Elysées, the police, with truncheons and rifle butts held high, charged the barricade.
In the Champs Elysées it was very cold. The fog was thick and dirty and it added to the nightmarish quality of the scene. It choked men, so they stopped fighting to cough, and then were knocked down while they coughed, and fell to the ground, still coughing...