Word: es
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 56, editor of the great, grey London Times; after long illness; at Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, East Africa. Lean, quiet Barrington-Ward became editor in paper-starved 1941, nevertheless helped restore to "The Thunderer" (which had subsided to a quiet echo of government policy) the old, forthright attitude that made it "free enough to cause some mutterings on the extreme Right and even some delighted flutterings on the Left...
...midnight last week, while cameras snapped and ground, French frontier guards lifted the striped barrier across the Bidassoa River bridge at Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would...
...weekday, Paris looked like Kansas on Sunday. Some 75% of the city's shops and cafes were closed-the junk dealer at the Bastille, the exclusive hosier in the Rue de Rivoli, the cheap stationer in the Faubourg St. Antoine, the swank Champs Elysées barber. It was not a strike; it was a protest. Many of the indignant proprietors had gone to a mass meeting of the classes moyennes, the middle classes, at the vast and dingy Vélodrome d'Hiver. The protest was not local; throughout the nation 85% of small business establishments were...
Left, somewhere along the Champs Elysées, by Nina Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of Sherlock Holmes's creator: a jeweled brooch, shaped like a hand, with rubies on the fingernails and a sprinkling of diamond stars and emeralds. Nina-who used to be Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani-advertised her loss in the papers and let it go at that. "Even Sherlock Holmes would have told the police in such a case," mumbled Paris' police chief. "His daughter-in-law had better consult us if she wants her brooch back." (In 1935 Nina dropped $8,000 worth...
...storm howled along the Portuguese coast. But that night, as usual, the 20-ship fishing fleet put out from the villages of Leixões, Matosinhos, Francelos, and the others. Fishing was good, but as the wind steadily increased, ship after ship put back to port. Only four remained at sea. The storm became a hurricane...