Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...
While guests at Juan-les-Pins bathed in her great pool cut out of solid rock, or slid down a long chute into the Mediterranean, Maxine Elliott, no longer beautiful, played with her famed monkey Kiki, ate whole chocolate layer cakes for lunch. She grew, old there, and monstrous fat. There, last week, she died...
Died. Maxine Elliott, 69, stage beauty; of a heart ailment; in Juan-les-Pins, France...
...beauteous Mesdames Ector Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British...
...Les Sacrifiés"-those who die first-is the French name for such troops, who must watch for and delay an enemy advance until fortress troops behind them can bring artillery into action. On the western half of the Rhine-Moselle sector, German patrols became larger and more aggressive, attacking by day as well as by night. Mischance brought to one French contingent more casualties than had been suffered in a single fight since mid-October. Two truckloads of "sacrifiés," going forward to relieve their comrades, took the wrong road and drove into the German lines. Hidden...