Word: georgeous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georges ("Georgeous Georges") Carpentier, dapper light-heavyweight boxing hero of the '20s and a French air-force veteran of World Wars I & II, was met in Paris by sight-seeing U.S. soldiers who questioned him in schoolboy French, mobbed him when he wisecracked in English: "Why the hell don't you speak your own language? Don't you recognize me?" Carpentier said that his Paris nightclub had been taken over by the Nazis, declared that he had cooperated with the enemy only once, and then under pressure, when he refereed a fight in Berlin. His only question...