Word: iles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mediterranean squall had sent him scurrying ashore to shelter. As the storm abated he saw Mairi nose in toward shallow water, buckle up on a rock, spill her crew into the sea. Yachtsman Coward started to hike. Twenty miles down the coast he walked into the village of Ile Rousse, told his plight to a skeptical hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what he could, then sailed to Nice, reporting: "All of the crew were saved. I went up to my neck in bilgewater on the wreck and managed...
...long that was to be. After a few weeks' temporary detention in a garage at Périgueux. Kuncz and his comrades were sent to Noirmoutier, an island off the west coast, imprisoned in a medieval monastery there. In the summer of 1916 they were transferred to the neighboring Ile d'Yeu, kept there until April 1919. Ex-Prisoner Kuncz has no stories of atrocities to tell, recalls no tortures but cold, filth, monotony, celibacy, imprisonment. The cumulative strength of his story lies in its quiet matter-of-factness. which magnifies no pettiness, shows through a clear lens a dreadfully long...
They were all glad to leave Noirmoutier but they found Ile d'Yeu worse: their quarters were underground, insanitary, overcrowded, their bodies weaker, their spirits lower. Homosexuality grew to such an extent that one of the most outstanding perverts, who played the feminine lead in their amateur shows, was treated respectfully as a real woman, ''achieved the creation of a sort of salon." When one day the prisoners saw the U. S. fleet steaming past their island, they knew the War was lost. But they still had many weary months to wait. When Ex-Prisoner Kuncz finally got back...
Last June Mrs. James Roosevelt, 79-year-old mother of the President, sailed from New York for a European holiday aboard the German liner Europa. Last week it was the French liner Ile de France that brought her back to the U. S. With her she brought from Aberdeenshire four yards of Scotch tweed as a present for her son to have a suit made from. Said she: "The cloth was very reasonable. I don't think it cost as much as £5. I do hope my son will have it made up, although Washington is hardly the place...
...Prefect of Police he became the complete boulevardier. From his little office on the Ile de la Cité with its hideous blue wallpaper he started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...