Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing-'La-Lal-la'-Mommon say to Pappa, 'Felix, me, I cannot wait for that ballet...
Hope & Humor. German soldiers stormed that impudent Belgians asked them: "Have you packed your bags yet?" A Danish bookseller put two huge portraits of Hitler and Mussolini in his window. Between them, he placed a copy of Les Misérables...
Died. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov, 84, Russian historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France. Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup...
...three-hit hard ball performance by pitcher Les Mendelsohn of Kirkland House did not stop Eliot from settling for a 5 to 5 tie with the Deacons last Wednesday. Mendelson, opposed by the Elephants' pitcher Vic Ekelberry, whiffed 13 batsmen. The Deacon soft-ballers dragged down an 11-5 win over Eliot House Wednesday...
...strode into the headquarters of Admiral Michelier with a pair of pearl-handled .45-caliber pistols strapped to his legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan of Morocco that he presented Patton with the special order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation: "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (The lions in their dens tremble at his approach). According to unofficial reports, he also impressed Franco's commanders in Spanish Morocco, doing a valuable service by placating them and removing any immediate danger of attack on the Allies...