Word: jour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Become the No. 1 U.S. mauve elegant, regularly made the lists of the nation's "Ten-Best-Dressed." (Once shouldered off the list by Harvard Prexy James B. Conant, Beebe cried: "Why, for years Conant has been notorious for his soup stains. He carries a whole carte du jour on his vest...
...soda jerker at South Hadley's sole fountain said bon jour to customers who last week asked for the soda au chocolat. Under the nearby shade trees of Mount Holyoke College's New England campus, entretiens (discussions) raged in French...
...stories of 20 habitual child drunkards, age 5 to 14, were told by Dr. Reginald S. Lourie in the American Jour nal of Orthopsychiatry. They were cases from Manhattan's Children Court (121 child dipsomaniacs in one year), Bellevue Hospital (30 cases from 1936 to 1941) and the Children's Society...
...handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united France...
...Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist who helped to prepare the way for the U.S. landings, once had interests in the Fascist-edited Parisian newspaper Le Jour. The Fighting French denounce him as a onetime member of the Cagoulards, an extreme rightist society which is still potent in North Africa...