Word: poincare
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Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in England and Clemenceau and Poincaré in France had been regular contributors and Mussolini soon became one. Our New York office suggested getting, since we could not have Hitler, who had turned us down, the number-two Nazi. This had led me to call Göring...
...torus or ring sliced in half and then set up with one half balanced on the other. It is a geometrical form, like the three-dimensional mathematical models that made an indelible impression on Bill when he saw them at the Musée Poincaré in Paris in the '30s. But then the bronze surface is polished and gilded to the point where the solid sculpture almost disappears in an ecstatic dazzle of light and twisting reflections; the mathematical form condenses ambiguities...
...book is fascinating because of the astonishing variety of Armstrong's encounters: Serbian patriots, Yugoslavian royalty, Poincaré, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt. He savors characters like Rumania's giddy and theatrical Queen Marie, who once told him, "Like clowns [royal families], amuse people, even with their funerals." One night in Madrid, Ernest Hemingway, otherwise charming, kept threatening to seek out Novelist Louis Bromfield and beat him up for some obscure slight...
...Verdun is taken, what a disaster!" warned France's President Raymond Poincaré. "If it is saved, how can we ever forget the price?" In the crudest ten months of World War I, Verdun was saved. But the price was so disastrous - half a million French and German dead - that it has never been forgotten by either nation...
...poet Baudelaire was aptly pegged ("somewhat bizarre charm") before being expelled for refusing to unhand another boy's note in class (he swallowed it). Louis-le-grand produced Bankers Henri and Alphonse de Rothschild; Sweden's King Oscar II, France's President (1913-20) Raymond Poincaré, Senegal President Léopold Senghor. Premier Georges Pompidou went there, and so did at least