Word: rouen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That is the prehistory of the story's chaotic opening at his base camp in Rouen. He is seen as a tireless, compassionate company commander, faithfully inspecting his men's feet and toothbrushes, writing their complicated little wills, guarding them from and for their women. Through labyrinths of official tape, thickets of superior and subordinate officers' personalities, swamps of physical obstacles, weather, food, transportation, equipment, his mind and nerves are shown maintaining their stability, and threading at the same time the dark jungles of his own inward life. Over all is the shadow of the major obscenity in the trenches...
Another way is to take the student and put him on a boat for Europe. In order to pass the course he must spend his first five weekends at places selected from the following list: Versailles, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Saint-Denis, Sevres, Troyes, Amiens, Chartres, the battlefields, Rouen. At the close of the "session," he will travel, in company with his fellow aspirants, for four days through the chateau district of Touraine along the Loire. Then, if he passes an examination, he will receive a credit toward his degree. This way of absorbing historical, architectural and decorative studies has never been...
...Rouen, the Archbishop of that name presided over a meeting of Catholics at which General de Castelnau and the Marquis de la Ferronaye spoke. The meeting passed a vote of censure on the Government for sponsoring the suppression of the French Embassy to the Vatican (TIME, June 30, Sept...
...terrible accidents of last year, when three aeronauts lost their lives in a thunderstorm. The race was in no way remarkable nor was the competition as keen as had been expected. The balloon of Captain E. H. Honeywell, veteran American, on whom U. S. hopes were concentrated, landed at Rouen with only 181 miles to its credit; and another American entry, with Maj. Peck and Lieut. Grey, landed at Malmedy without even leaving Belgian soil...
...brief glimpse of the Ambulatory of Rheims Cathedral, immediately after the crowning of the Dauphin Charles VII of France, depicts the beginning of Joan's fall. In the following trial scene at Rouen, she is condemned by the church and burned at the stake (off stage) for a heretic...