Word: minuit
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...Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le père had proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers' chorus and the well-loved carols in which they all would join...
Since the Indians sold Manhattan Island to Peter Minuit for $24 worth of trinkets in 1626, its face has been changed out of all knowledge. Most of the man-made excrescences have made that face more blotchy, pockmarked, chafed, scarred and haggard. But last week the battered island was scheduled to get a major face lifting...
Anti-Nazi poems, novels, essays and political reports, mostly written by Frenchmen under pseudonyms and collectively known as Les Editions de Minuit (Midnight Editions), they had been published under the noses of Vichy and Nazi authorities for more than two years. Now the authors' real names were revealed...
Only 25 Knew. Before the liberation of Paris only 25 people knew the identity of the man chiefly responsible for Les Editions de Minuit. He was shy, thirtyish Jean Bruller, a onetime illustrator whose skittish prewar works included a book of cartoons entitled Twenty-One Delightful Ways of Committing Suicide...
Last week Queen Wilhelmina visited the Dutch-descended President of the U.S. at Hyde Park. Then, wearing her store-bought clothes from Pittsfield, she motored to the island that Dutchman Peter Minuit bought from the Indians for $24, a city that might have been under her domain but for the casual fall of New Amsterdam 278 years...