Word: merlis
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...nest of multicolored bosomy birds, from whose naked, writhing limbs a semihuman arm emerged to paint its creator's conception of the disorderly universe. In the next room hung early canvases by de Chirico; also three recent Picassos, one of which, Les Femmes au Bord de la Mer, dwarfed, by its sheer creative power, every other painting in the show...
...History. Dutchmen without a home founded the Dutch Navy. They bequeathed to the Dutch sailors of Conrad Helfrich's day a tradition second to none for daring, seacraft and victory against great odds. They called themselves Les gueux de mer (Sea Beggars)-the Dutch corsairs who fled conquered Holland in the late 1500s, then harried Spanish shipping and once sailed a fleet inland across flooded fields to relieve beleaguered Leiden...
Heavy with dramatic overtones, the trial opened in the beige and dark oak Salle d'Assises, where watchmen at night saw the ghosts of the profligate Dukes of Berry and Bourbon, lingering on from the Middle Ages. The accused were two for mer Premiers, Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum, the once-great Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Air Minister Guy La Chambre* and a controller general of a once-great Army, Pierre Jaco-met. The accusation originally had been that they led France to war, but now the Vichy Government had watered down the charge to "betrayal of duties...
...cracked that the vicinity's "magnetic attraction" made flying impossible. Like Hermann Göring, he flew with Richthofen's Flying Circus, and his bag of 62 planes was second only to the Baron's 80. In a duel with the French ace Georges Guyne-mer, his machine gun jammed and left him helpless. The Frenchman spotted his predicament and left him unharmed...
...system put into effect this sum- mer by Landis is modeled after the British chain of posts that have proved so valuable in warding off Nazi bombers during the past year...