Word: philibert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus unmasked as the leader of a counterfeit gold coin ring, the 24-year-old, French Canadian Besson admitted that high finance was in his blood-he was a nephew of the late, crack-pate deputy Philibert Hippolyte Marcelin Besson, called "the Incredible," famed for his Ed Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle...
Unlike Nephew Leo, Uncle Philibert laughed at police traps, led the cops Mack Sennett chases. Sometimes he found temporary refuge in a tree, sometimes in Belgium, sometimes in the constitutional immunity of the Chamber of Deputies. But he died (1941) in Riom prison...
Said a detective, eyeing a "gold" pile worth 30 millions: "Zut! Next to him, Uncle Philibert was a piker...
Frolicking Fascist. The family feud began when Mussolini first threatened to supplant diminutive King Victor Emmanuel III with his cousin, Emmanuel Philibert. Mussolini later showered affection upon Emmanuel Philibert's two towering pro-Fascist sons, Amedeo and Aimone (who later married beautiful Princess Irene of Greece...
...choose between two duties, always take that one whose fulfillment is the most brutal and the most difficult. You can be quite sure that it is the right one." General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme was sacked by Vichy for continuing the fight in Somaliland. Twelve-times-wounded Colonel Philibert Collet escaped from Syria to join De Gaulle last...