Word: nordness
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Inspired by such exclamations, about 300 enthusiastic young Communists, with red roses and carnations in their hands and the Internationale on their lips, gathered at Paris' Gare du Nord on a chilly, drizzly morning, waiting for the Nord Express and their idol. But the Communist Party was not yet ready to expose the wonders of Soviet medicine to their view. At St. Quentin, 80 miles from Paris, the door of a special Polish private car attached to the Nord Express opened, and Thorez showed himself...
...disease; in Paris. As Ambassador to Rome during the '30s, he became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance with "My Benito" by advising II Duce...
...some 8,000 French security police, gendarmes and mobile guards, with helmets, Tommy guns, gas masks and rifles, were ready in the square. That evening, Communists by the thousands tore loose with stones, iron bars, clubs, broken bottles and metal chairs there and at other salients-the Gare du Nord, the Gare de 1'Est and a Metro station appropriately named Stalingrad...
Gigi is as French as Colette. But where Colette's Frenchness is everything meant by "Gallic," Director Raymond Rouleau's is everything called up by the Gare du Nord-bustling, clamorous, boisterous. This coarsens a play whose slightness should be equaled by its lightness, whose charm lies in the contrast between its manners and its morals. Such gentility may make the play seem more immoral, but without it Gigi is merely raffish, and less entertaining than it should be. Only such a tittle jewel of a scene as the scene of the jewels comes off completely. Otherwise, Gigi...
...more than a month, Paris nights had been disturbed by mysterious bomb blasts, five of them directed against Communist bookstores and propaganda headquarters. Last week the bomb-throwers blasted the front door and grillwork of the Banque Commerciale pour l'Europe du Nord, used by Moscow for its financial transactions with France, and a known reservoir for Communist Party funds...