Word: opold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merely Bored. In Pralognan, France, police jailed Léopold Dupont, who had taken careful aim with his carbine, scored a bull's-eye on a passing pedestrian's wooden...
...denounced it in dingy bistros, and bourgeois canvassed it dreamily on the conjugal couch. Cléo became almost as scandalous as conditions in the Congo rubber jungles, which Leopold had also bequeathed his country. The king's enemies, of whom he had many, called him "Cléopold." L'affaire Cléo enlivened the otherwise boring business of Cabinet meetings...
...French political marriages were breaking up. At the town hall of Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...
Born. To Prince Louis Charles Marie Léopold Robert of Bourbon-Parma, 39, brother of former Empress Zita; and Princess Maria Francesca Anna Romana, 25, youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III; their first child, a son; in Rome...