Word: frenchmen
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...have set up camps for well over 100,000 D.P.s. In defiance of many ponderous international agreements, I have trucked several thousand Frenchmen into France. It was all against the book, but they are home now. Quick action is possible...
...through and where all their clothing was stripped from them; 2) the Brausebad (shower) room, where the victims were gassed; and 3) the crematory. In the crematory were two large furnaces. Before the two furnaces were hooks and pulleys on rafters above them. Here, according to a number of Frenchmen, the SS men often hanged prisoners by the necks or by the thumbs or whatever their fancy dictated. From here the victims could watch while being whipped and tortured as their comrades were slid into the furnace...
...most of these treasured names, Author Stewart explains, are by now about as Indian as the aboriginal forest trail now called Broadway. Even in their original forms they were often so old that their source and meaning puzzled the Indians themselves. Clipped and pummeled into pronounceable shape by Spaniards, Frenchmen, Russians, Harvardmen, gold miners, railroad presidents and sentimental poets, they ended up as much Greek as Indian. In fact, they were American-the first ingots from the great U.S. verbal melting pot that put the second "C" in Connecticut (no one knows who did, or why), made Wyoming...
...Froide & Low Freight. When the first Spaniards and Frenchmen set foot in the New World they bestowed their most resounding titles on their settle ments and, like the Indians, kept the simpler, descriptive names for streams, woods and hillocks. But to their plain, pioneering successors, both these sorts of names were fancy nuisances. When a henchman of King Philip of Spain sonorously created La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco (The Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis), he had hardly turned his back before it was ruthlessly hacked down to what it is today...
...steady stream of Frenchmen returning from German bondage became a torrent. In a single day last week 20,000 repatriated prisoners poured through the Government's reception centers. They were tired men, smiling out of their fatigue, longing fiercely for home. Fiercely longing women met them...