Word: frenchwoman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many reports of hosts of women snipers boiled down to two concrete cases. One was a 29-year-old Pole called Myra, who was reported to have lured soldiers into smiling range of her revolver. Another was identified as Audette Chraud, a Frenchwoman who potted Allied troops from her bedroom window. Villagers explained that she had been their leading collaborationist and a frequent entertainer of German officers. Both were taken to England, the Frenchwoman wounded...
...being a "rolypoly French wife": rolypoly I certainly am, due in part to the steady diet of oysters and champagne. This I cannot refute. But I definitely am not a Frenchwoman. I am a dyed-in-the-wool (and I do not mean Mr. Monteux's wool) Maineiac, and proud indeed of my old New England ancestry...
...have two Foreign News researchers who can tell you firsthand just what the Nazis are like. Louise Bronaugh worked eight years in Europe, was in Paris when the Germans took over. She lived three months under the swistika-finally escaped to Vichy with the help of an old Frenchwoman who led her along 16 miles of backwoods roads at night...
Many of the throng went especially to hear Claude Alphand sing. She is a beautiful, blonde, rather waxwork-like Frenchwoman who accompanies her balladry on the guitar. Rated by many as the best French chanteuse since Yvette Guilbert and Lucienne Boyer, she sings with a feline throatiness and great stylistic elegance. Her favorite song...
...that De Gaulle and of the alternatives to him, a Frenchwoman in Vichy-france wrote last December. When she penned her letter to a friend in the U.S., turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan was still alive and in U.S. favor. Since his death, many things had changed for the better. But when her smuggled letter turned up in the U.S. last week, its words still rang...