Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan of Arc was (traditionally) a sweet-faced, lissome brunette who fired a disunited France and its weakling Dauphin to clear French soil of a 15th-Century invader...
...these disparate figures Radio Paris professed last week to find an essential likeness. On the feast day of St. Joan, harking back 500 years to British efforts to shackle France with the pro-English Duke of Burgundy, Radio Paris blatted: "In June 1940 Churchill asked Reynaud to unite France and Britain. What had been frustrated by Joan's sublime sacrifices, Churchill and Reynaud were about to realize. To frustrate the new plan there were just two men, Petain and Laval. . . . From Charles VII to Petain, from the Shepherdess of Lorraine to the son of Auvergne, the Englishman hasn...
Then he elbowed his way into his apartment house. "There," said the Sun, "his waiting mother wrapped him briefly in her arms. Next he caught up and kissed his daughter, Joan." He posed, frozen-faced, while photographers snapped him getting reacquainted with Joan (see cut). Asked his favorite dish, he said, "I don't care what it is so long as Mom cooks it." Said the 30-year-old hero of Bataan: "I'm going to spend every minute I can with my family...
Here in Boston to report to local anti-Vichyites on the occasion of Joan of Are Day yesterday, France's unofficial ambassadors to the U.S. originally planned to come to Cambridge to consult informally with the nucleus of the Harvard movement headed by Georges Gerad...
...celebration of Joan of Arc day, the Boston Chapter of France Forever will hold a giant rally in The New England Mutual Hall on Clarendon Street, Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The Harvard unit will be represented by all members who can attend...