Word: jour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major Putnam Bradlee ("Putty") Strong, 71, onetime "handsomest man in the U.S. Army," whose sentimental jour neys (contemporary estimate: 41,339 miles) and subsequent nuptials with mad cap Actress May Yohe, then Lady (Hope Diamond) Hope, were accompanied by an international obbligato of tongue-clacking and ended in a 1910 divorce after she accused him of pawning $300,000 worth of her jewels; in University...
...worked hard; 50 to 60 coups par jour. From three to ten at night. And three flights of stairs every time. My feet were gone before dark. Soldiers and sailors came from all over Norway, and officers in civilian clothes. We knew what ships were in port, what units were passing through, but there was no one to tell...
Basic Invasion. In Normandy, Canadian Lieut. Charlie Hudson encountered a French boy, said "Bon jour." Replied the French boy: "Got any gum, chum...
...jour de gloire est arriv...
There were other irritations. Slick, sleek Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, big-time oilman, banker and part owner of the prewar pro-Fascist Paris Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the short-lived Giraud government. The Gaullists suspected that Allied officials had supplied the passes and transportation, that a serious effort to save the skins of many Vichymen was being prepared...