Word: poirier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of so much detail on the work of unidentified people, all that was definitely known was that under military order police had locked up Loys Aubin, news editor of Le Temps, and J. Poirier, ex-employe of Le Temps, now working in the advertising department of Figaro. As both Le Temps and Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just...
...obscure nurse named Madeleine Poirier slaved for years to get Life Convict Ullmo pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
Citizen Ullmo showed not the slightest interest in Nurse Poirier. "What most strikes me," he declared as his parting shot on sailing back to French Guiana, ''is the formidable weakness of the world spiritually, the lowering of standards of conscience and even of intelligence since I was sent away 26 years ago. You have lost your sense of values. You take quantity for quality. You think size is greatness...