Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa, Le Reposoir, in Switzerland's Pregny, King Leopold listened to the radio news on the election, broke the tension once to go swimming with Mary Liliane. He wanted to come back, but was enough of a Belgian himself not to hurry...
...played Springtime for Henry perennially (at a profit of about $1,000,000), will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...
...Poison. Day after day the Socialist Le Peuple lit into Leopold. The paper recalled that in November 1940, while a "captive" in his castle, Leopold had run down to Berchtesgaden for tea with Hitler...
Many middle-of-the-road Belgians, unimpressed by Le Peuple's poisonous campaign, nevertheless suspected that Leopold, a man of considerable intelligence and ability, was a natural autocrat who would never be comfortable within the limits of a constitutional monarchy. In 1940, two weeks after the Germans invaded Belgium, he had refused the pleas of the Belgian cabinet to leave the country and form a government-in-exile in London. In 1944, the Nazis took him to Germany; he was liberated there by the Allies and went to Switzerland. The Brussels Parliament installed his brother Charles as Regent...
...world's top architects, including France's Le Corbusier and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, had joined in deciding what the U.N. headquarters, on Manhattan's East Side, should look like. When their tentative plan was first announced (TIME, June 2, 1947), it raised a storm of protest. Howled one architect: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars...