Word: millar
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...What is my field name?" asked Millar. He had never bothered to find...
...Millar the name seemed almost as awful as the Gestapo. "Visions connected with this ghastly name flashed through my head. I saw stalwart foresters laying back their heads until the neck cords showed like bared intestines, but their voices came in a shallow unison pipe: 'Oh, Désiré.' I saw the German questioners in Gestapo headquarters. Their leader aid: 'We give you one last chance, Captain Er, Captain Um, Captain Désiré.' I aw a woman with gold teeth and dirty hair who came towards me asking...
...What kind of people are called Désiré?" Millar asked...
...this point they were interrupted by one of those female officials whom Millar always called "Intelligent Gentlewomen." Their voices "reeked of the Tightness of life, of tea in the nursery and snowmen with pipes in their mouths and Struwelpeter and Jemima Puddleduck. . . ." "It is rather a dreadful name," she agreed. 'Perhaps I might manage to get it changed." It was changed to Emile on that last day when, "like any important murderer, I could get anything I wanted...
...them their raw, uncomfortable, dangerous life and breathless escapes, leading them on hazardous sabotage expeditions until, by the time of liberation, they had inflicted formidable damage on the Germans, and how in the process he himself became a leader and cunning man of action, is the substance of Captain Millar's remarkable first-hand report. Millar's role is stated but never strutted. His account is studded with more obviously fascinating figures-like Paincheau, the French leader who organized his maquis on big U.S. racketeering lines, with fleets of stolen automobiles and motorcycles. But if Millar organized...