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Word: french (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After George VI was safe home in England, fact was released that he had: spent six nights abroad; gone within range of German guns; been told that, for this war's first time, British ground troops had (under French direction) engaged the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...report on the men's morale, quality of food and quarters, supply of toothbrushes, cigarets and the like, requests for reading matter. Every night, by a dim blue light in the trailer, he wrote a letter to his Duchess, who plans to run a war hospital on the French Riviera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...story the King could take home to his wife & children* was about a French schoolmarm, dating back to his great-grandmother's day, who expressed regret that she had not known sooner of his coming. Otherwise, she said, she would have taught her small charges "to sing 'God Save the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Queen Elizabeth did her bit last week by eating a threepenny (5?) luncheon in a rural home for evacuated London slum children, proclaiming it "very good." It was announced that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose would send Christmas presents to evacuated French children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...French High Command, normally taciturn, last week authorized an extended commentary which contained both a major boast and a major threat. It said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Boast & Threat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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