Word: ral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watercolors exhibited in San Francisco were the originals (insured at $1,000 apiece) for eight volumes of Herbier Général de I'Amateur. Most were of wild flowers, less than half of them native to France. There were scabiosa from the Caucasus, pink periwinkles from Madagascar, sow thistle from the Canary Islands, chrysanthemums and yellow jasmine from China, lilacs from western Asia, and even some California wild flowers collected by a Russian expedition, taken to St. Petersburg and eventually transplanted to Paris. Even in reproduction, no hotelkeeper had anything like...
...hoarse warnings, ferried outsize trays of corned beef & cabbage. Powers models swirled among the 1,031 guests, handing out clay pipes. On the stage, aging Funnyman Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked wise, a line of Bloomer Girls pranced through a dance routine, Bing Crosby crooned Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, and then Morton Downey sang it again...
Belfort, a stronghold for more than 700 years,* and a formidable assault objective, was thinly held. Histrionic Delattre de Tassigny (his officers call him Le Général de Théâtre) attempted no frontal siege. He sent his infantrymen over the snow-sogged hills to envelop the city on three sides, finally reduced several of its forts by artillery...
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