Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker's youth was a conscious preparation for public life. He was born in Sept. 18, 1895 in the Ontario village of Newstadt, son of a German-descended schoolteacher who liked to boast that he had taught William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's famed and durable (1921-48, except for five years) Liberal Prime Minster. When John was eight, father Diefenbaker took his family to a Saskatchewan crossroads where the northern prairies turn into a subarctic wasteland of muskeg, timber and lakes. There one day father Diefenbaker tied a red bandanna to the rim of a wagon wheel...
...films (The Story of a Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want Paris to die . . ."), was once (1948) kidnaped by former resistance fighters in Lyon, forced to stand at silent attention for one minute before a memorial to martyred war heroes...
...soon as Captain Pierre, commander of the Kong-Plong outpost in south Indo-China, saw the handsome, flaxen-haired corporal from Lyon, he felt that he had a solution to the problem of winning over certain Moi' tribes which had taken up a neutral position in the war with the Communist-led Viet Minh. After a workout with the colonial troops, Corporal Riesen, the author of this book, was sent into the mountainous jungle 'of central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with...
...asthma, improves more than half of the patients with skin diseases. Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm and also for ridding the system of its poisons. They are healthy vacations...
...ever considered itself captive. Sizer not only became a leading authority on American art, he also grew into something of a legend. Last week, at 65, as he prepared to retire from teaching, he was already as much a part of Yale lore as John ("Daily Themes") Berdan, William Lyon Phelps and the crotchety Johnsonian, Chauncey Brewster Tinker...