Word: mercier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Christine R. Mercier '66, was hit while riding her bicycle on Quincy...
Martine R. Mercier '66 was struck and injured by a bus Friday afternoon while riding her bicycle on Quincy St., near Burr Lecture Hall. She was still being held Friday evening at Mt. Hospital, where she was treated for shock...
...wife picks up the challenge, and the rest of the story describes how she almost wins her dirty little game. She seduces the chauffeur (Daniel Gélin). who seduces the maid (Jocelyne Mercier), who thereupon becomes a pliable witness to all sorts of things she imagines she has seen. In the end it takes some very clever police work by a marvelously grimacious flic (Bernard Blier) to bring the criminals to book-but then, come to think of it, what crime have they committed...
...tries to shame Dreyfus into suicide. He refuses, and the army is forced to convene a court-martial and invent enough evidence to support the charges. Convicted of high treason, Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded and stripped of rank in the presence of the Minister of War himself, General Mercier, who looks down with cool indifference upon the ruined man, apparently not in the least concerned by new evidence, just handed to him, which proves Esterhazy guilty and Dreyfus innocent. Indifferently, the general turns away. "We must protect the institution," he bristles self-righteously, "even at the expense...
...Barnard Hall girls who were talking on the fourth floor when the incident occurred claimed the students were shouting such phrases as "come down here" and "you killed my mother and I'll kill you," before Mercier fired the shots. They also said the three were "climbing trees and pounding on the doors of Eliot and Whitman...