Word: mon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the sufferers of last summer's Blitzkrieg were Mon Talisman and Clairvoyant, famous French thoroughbred race horses. From the time of the Nazi invasion their whereabouts was a mystery. Mon Talisman, a magnificent black stallion, had won six firsts and two seconds in eight starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix du President de la République (richest French handicap). Clairvoyant, his chestnut son, won five firsts in six starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club and the Grand Prix de Paris; altogether won 1,914,650 francs...
Only Congressman to rise from the House to the Senate was Washington's Democratic, pro-New Deal Mon C. Wallgren, 49. His strong Scandinavian following voted down vigorous, 46-year-old Stephen Fowler Chadwick...
...lions. Once, prowling in Philadelphia's tony Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, he discovered a cache of painters' equipment. He rounded up Teammates Dizzy Dean and Ducky-Wucky Medwick, and all three, wearing overalls and carrying paint buckets and brushes, marched into the main dining room bawling: "C'mon folks. Beat it. There's going to be a banquet here in an hour and we gotta get these walls painted. Don't bother about paying for the checks, scram...
...couldn't take it?" Colonel (Count) Radziwill, a military refugee, grew angry at this one day. Said he fiercely: ". . . It was not the tanks and bombers. . . . It was the way the Germans used them. They used them in a new way. In a war of movement!" "Ah, mon vieux, comme vous etes naif!" said an old French general. "A war of movement across the dry Polish plains, oui! But through the Ardennes, through the Dutch floods, through the Belgian defenses, through the Maginot . . . c'est ridicule...
...NORTHERN PORT, IN ENGLAND, (Mon.)--A British refugee ship en route to Canada has been torpedoed with a loss of 294 lives, including many babies and children tossed into the sea or victims of lingering death in lifeboats, it was revealed early today...