Word: ile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henri Philippe Pétain, wife of the old Marshal of Verdun and Vichy, now sharing his exile on the Ile d'Yeu, brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
...Henri Philippe Petain has been a seemingly interminable life. The officer who waited 44 years to become a major, 62 years to be Marshal of France, 84 years to be chief of the French state, was condemned as a traitor at 89. Today, in his fortress cell at Ile d'Yeu, he waits...
...almost 93-year-old marshal was once more to enjoy trees and flowers, there was little time to lose. In his fortress prison on the Ile de Yeu, the man who once dragged that he would live to be no was rapidly failing. By special dispensation he was no longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge...
From Winthrop House: Hale M. Knight '50, of Grosse Ile, Mich...
...There's a difference," he explains, "in the way a $12 coat wrinkles from the way a $75 coat wrinkles. And that has to be right. It's just as important, esthetically, as the difference in the light of the Ile de France and the Brittany coast. Maybe it's more important. If I look at an ordinary overcoat as if I never saw it before, then it becomes as fit a subject for painting as one of Titian's purple cloaks...