Word: holocaust
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...typical of famed Marseille, but so too is the soaring, indomitable spirit of its sunny French citizens. The true Marseillais is bold, humorous, boastful and greathearted. Last week stout, jovial, bearded Louis Frichet, one of the most popular citizens of jostling, neighborly Marseille, became the hero of a holocaust which made news the world around...
...that the city fire department was no better than the police. Four years ago the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander together with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille was "on the police." Last week, although a Marseille fire brigade chief gave his life recklessly fighting the flames, the holocaust was "on the fire department." The conflagration got completely out of hand...
There is but one criticism to be made. Anything following so terrific a holocaust seems to sag very badly, but one is so glad to see any survivors at all that the deplorably week ending makes up for its deficiencies in motive and dialogue by sending the audience home happy...
...Schlieffen's 19-year-old plan to crush France at a single blow by a wide sweep through Belgium was at last being put to the test. The Treaty of 1839 guaranteeing Belgium's territorial integrity had become a scrap of paper. A four years' holocaust had begun...
...holocaust caused by the University's stand on the receiving of women into the Houses, the President and his sixteen cohorts asked for a rejection of the "sole woman" parietal rule and a revision and standardization of the old rule. Upon President Conant's return from Europe the suggestion was adopted with a slight modification --the requirement of two males for one woman. Shortly after this compromise the Council, publishing the results of the previous year's investigation, requested that all laboratories be opened at night and that the actual time required for experiments be definitely stated in the catalogue...