Word: huguenots
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...advantage: it was private. . . ." In the damp and windy solitude of his gazebo he could meditate in peace. And visitors could come & go unnoticed. "For, as in Paris, so here before La Rochelle, the friar acted as chief of Richelieu's secret service." With Catholic secret agents and Huguenot traitors, in the flooded summerhouse, the friar would sit "into the small hours, listening to their reports and giving them instructions. Then, dismissing them with their wages, he would lie down to sleep. Before daybreak he was up again and on his knees...
...tall, huge-nosed Huguenot, Peter Portal has always been a driving man. His first hobby was speed on two wheels, and his first job in World War I was as a motorcycle dispatch rider. He still bears a scar over his left eye because one night he ran his motorcycle right into the back of a truck. Later he took up flying, which was faster. His promotions in the R.A.F. were rapid...
...children were of many different groups: "English, Afrikander [native Dutch or Huguenot], Jewish, Bantu, Cape Colored, Indian and Chinese." They had to put a ten-pound shot, run 100 and 600 yards, at any pace they pleased. After each child finished, the doctors made careful notes on how tired he was. Amazing was the finding: all racial groups of the same age had the same endurance. Said the doctors: "No more impressive evidence for the basic equality of man has ever been adduced...
...around to the Bosporus, Decca had collected a rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting the English, should fall pleasantly on ears fond...
...apart from the swampy, dream-like, hunting lowlands of the South Carolins coast, or the immense sugar plantations that lay along the broad Mississippi in Louisiana. In Charleston was concentrated an urbane civilization that drew its lifeblood from rice and cotton. Along the palm-lined Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with races, receptions, and balls. In lively Creole New Orlcans that city of crawfish bisque and gumbo file. Spanish pompano and mackerel, fried plaintains, baked bananas, claret and Bourbon, absinthe, Sazerac...