Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Ogre. With $15,000 and a genius for things mechanical, Louis Renault and two brothers started building racing cars in 1899 in a shop in his mother's backyard. By 1908 the shop was a 50,000-sq.yd. factory in Billancourt, near Paris. Its 3,000 workers were soon...
By the '20s he had princely wealth, a vast palace near the Bois de Boulogne, a handsome wife and a son. He also had mistresses: the first, an opera singer, had refused to marry him ("As long as I'm only his mistress, I'm still free...
The Vengeance. Paris had been liberated only two days when underground newspapers were shouting for Louis Renault's head, and three weeks later he surrendered on condition that he would not be jailed until indicted. He was taken to a prison infirmary, then transferred to a private nursing home...
In Baltimore, soon after the general elections of 1948, Henry Louis Mencken suffered a severe stroke that damaged his power of speech and his ability to read and write. But it left his remarkable mind unimpaired and isolated. Two years later a massive coronary occlusion brought him once more to...
Leopold showed off his child prodigy at the first opportunity. Wolferl was only six when he played for Empress Maria Theresa at Schönbrunn Palace. He was seven when he played before Louis XV and tried to kiss Madame de Pompadour. She pushed him away coldly, whereupon he piped...