Word: girand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finals of the tournament, Fuller, last year's wrestling captain, took a split decision from Bob Girand, a man he knocked out last fall in an amateur bout. He gained his advantage in the second and third rounds after fighting cautiously for the first two minutes. In the semifinals he won a unanimous decision over Ed Moylan, a former Navy fighter...
Following swiftly on Gen. Henri Girand's repudiation of all Vichy Statutes as affecting North Africa, the order also provided that postage stamps or other issues carrying Petain's picture of signature should be removed from circulation at once...
...particular it's encouraging that the two leaders made such a complete survey of all the war theatres," Wild stated on the basis of the late news, "and that they were able to guarantee supplies to every Allied nation." The fact that De Gaulle and Girand, representing the Free French and the French fighting in Africa, have met and agreed is also very important...
...Schoenberg's music to Albert Girand's fantastical poems entitled Pierre Lunaire is the last word in cacophony and musical anarchy. Some day it may be pointed out as of historical interest, because it represents the turning point, for the outraged muse surely can endure no more of this. Such noise must drive even the moonstruck Pierrot back to the realm of real music. Albertine Zehme . . . repeated the poems while a musical, or rather, unmusical ensemble . . . discoursed the most car splitting combination of tones ever to desecrate the walls of a Berlin music hall...
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