Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Single Family." In 1922, Aristide Briand, greatest of France's 20th that it Century must "unite"- internationalists, not only warned "to prosper" but "to live." This was only four years after the "war to end war." In 1871, when France was crumbling under Prussian force, the author of Les Miserables spoke up. Said Victor Hugo: "I will demolish my fortresses. You will demolish yours. My vengeance, it is fraternity. No more frontiers, the Rhine for all! Let us be the same Republic! Let us have the United States of Europe, let us have Continental federation, let us have European...
...Donna Balabird, "Joan" in last year's H.T.W. production of Shaw's "St Joan," will assume the leading note in "Les Mooches...
Turkey & Potions. But work done did not interfere with political jockeying. Democrats who had begun to sidle away from the President's stand against tax reduction broke into an undignified jog. Minority Leader Alben Barkley let it be known that a $4 billion cut might be acceptable. Les Biffle, Harry Truman's eyes & ears in Congress, departed to talk turkey with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, who was vacationing in Florida...
...literary todo, more than artistic attitudes was at stake. During the war, such Quebec publishing concerns as Charbonneau's Les Editions de I'Arbre had a free hand in launching French Canadian novels that might otherwise have gone to Paris. Quebec wants to keep the business. French publishers, on the other hand, squirm as Quebec-printed books run into big editions. Said a Paris critic: "[French] Canadians should be ostracized. They are going to ruin our market...
Died. Caroline Lacroix, Baroness de Vaughan, seventyish, second wife (morganatic) and widow of Belgium's King Leopold II; in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Young daughter of a Parisian concierge, she became the mistress of 65-year-old Leopold, bore him two sons in nine years, wed him in 1909, four days before his death...