Word: levant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the date mocked General Henri Fernand Dentz, for it was Bastille Day. As he took up the pen his throat must have worked. Last year he signed Paris away to the conquering Nazis. Now, as Vichy's High Commissioner to the Levant States, he was about to sign Syria away to the conquering British and, even worse, to the conquering Free French. General Dentz, who rather resembles a provincial druggist in uniform, sighed and signed his full name...
...dishonor, made a brief show of refusing them, then dumped the whole mess into General Dentz's lap. After thanking the Vichy forces who took part in the campaign, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain declared to Syria's civilians: "France is going to suffer an eclipse in the Levant...
Typical gag from the Harry Tugend-Dwight Taylor script: a songwriter (Oscar Levant) trying to converse with Cindy Lou's fire-eating aunt (Elizabeth Patterson) in the midst of her relics of the Confederacy: "My mother had a lot of General Grant's things in her home." She: "Bottles, I presume...
Inside Syria the Axis Armistice Commission had been happily taking inventory of the supply dumps left over from General Maxime Weygand's Army of the Levant: said to be enough materiel to equip 100,000 men and keep them in the field during a brief campaign...
Procurement of bookbinding supplies recently has been a particularly knotty problem, for the war has affected the whole industry. With the United States almost completely dependent on foreign imports for the best grades of leather bindings, shipments of such goods as calf, pigskin, Levant, and morocco have practically ceased; already one ship with some of its cargo destined for the Harvard Bindery has been sunk...