Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pierre paused in his work to test an iron grille before the mouth of a small branch drain. The bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...
...spiritual agony unparalleled since the French Revolution. But readers are not likely to discover that fact from Heart of Europe. In part this is because the editors, suffering the handi caps of space and copyright that usually beset anthologists, hive included only fragments of each author's work. Marcel Proust, whose Remembrance of Things Past totals 2,265 pages, is represented by five pages ("The Death of Bergotte") from his The Captive. Andre Gide is rep resented by six pages from Les Nouvelles Nourritures. Thomas Mann contributes 13 pages from The Beloved Returns, 17 from Freud, Goethe, Wagner. Benedetto...
...greatest wars. Into its 935 pages, the editors (Thomas Mann's son, Klaus, and German Novelist Hermann Kesten) have packed scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...
...Most notable recent arestees: Pierre Etienne Flandin, ex-Foreign Minster under Marshal Pétain; Marcel Peyrouton, ex-Minister of the Interior under Pétain; Pierre Boisson, turncoat Governor General of French West Africa, who fired on a joint British-Free French landing at Dakar...
...arrived at Manchester, the last bus had gone. Through the blackout, with air-raid sirens wailing, he walked four miles home. His family had all but given him up. The children, Joyce, 8, Frank, 7, had been put to bed. Lily, his wife, unwilling to muss her new marcel wave before he saw it, waited, and kept ready...