Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, Mrs. Jolas phoned Joyce again to say that the Gare de Lyon in Paris was closed. Joyce said that couldn't possibly be true because his friend, Irish Poet Samuel Beckett, had just come from Paris. He added: "Have you heard anything about that book that I asked you to get me from the Gotham Book Mart?" Next day Paris fell. Day after that Mrs. Jolas ran into Giorgio Joyce on the street in St. Gérand-le-Puy, with all the Joyce luggage, looking for a place to stay. So, by then, were hundreds...
Henri Focillon, French art historian, has been appointed research fellow in residence at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and collection, at Georgetown, Washington, D. C., effective as of December 1, 1940. Professor Focillon was formerly professor of Medieval Art at the universities of Paris and Lyon, formerly director of Lyon Museum and formerly professor of The Fine Arts at Yale University. The Dumbarton Oaks Library and collection was recently conveyed to Harvard by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...
...United States Government in military uniform with a can of condensed milk in his hand instead of a hand grenade would do more to restore hope and courage ... in the democracies than anything we could do for the peoples of Europe now. Let's send the Marines! JOE LYON JR. Boise, Idaho...
Invited by BBC to introduce Great Britain's latest tune was dark, vivacious Comedienne Bebe Daniels, star of over 250 oldtime Hollywood flickers, now the plump-&-40 wife of British Cinemactor Ben Lyon. Sang...
Fanny Burney mentions him. Horace Walpole mentions him. Boswell mentions him. But Thomas Blake Clark's handsomely bound and printed book is the first full-length account of Omai (pronounced Oh, My!), the Polynesian Islander, who for two years (1774-76) was "the lyon of lyons" of London drawing rooms...