Word: nord
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important fact Laval did not have, as he stepped on the Express du Nord in Paris: that Dictator Pilsudski was fast dying of cancer (see p. 21). When the train stopped for 20 minutes in Berlin, he expected what he got, scant attention from anybody except the French Ambassador. But he was chilled to the marrow, when the train pulled up on a well-guarded siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted...
...Alfonso of Spain; autographed photographs of Elisabeth, Alfonso, many a notable in government and medicine:* decorations from Belgium, France, Spain, Rumania. Fastened to red velvet and framed in gold is the "original key used by the ex-Emperor of Germany during his sojourn in France at the Hotel du Nord, Charleville...
...Wagons-Lits auspices was Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Irkutsk-Yladivostok. 7,800 miles. Bolsheviks stole all Wagons-Lits cars on which they could lay their hands, and still operate them. Germany operates more of her own sleeping cars than any other continental power. But Wagons-Lits expresses such as the "Nord Express" roar nightly over the Paris-Berlin-Riga route...
...result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
...Shameless hawkers in the Gare du Nord sold what they said were scraps of cloth from her trousseau...