Word: rue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the Union Jack with the greeting: "Strong and yet kind, whilst children near him play, but foes who touch the flag will rue...
...World War I (named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...
...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...
...turnover was fast, but the work was easy and two big staffs (afternoon and night) of rewrite and copydesk men could spend half their time in the bistro on the corner or playing cards on the copy desk. The Herald was published in an old building in the Rue du Louvre, adequately covered by insurance, and it was considered all right to light fires in the wastebaskets and put them out with imitation champagne. Only permanent fixtures on the staff were Managing Editor Eric Hawkins (who, being an Englishman with a French wife, was adept at suppressing what the French...
First requisite of a picture with a moral is that it make its moral seem important. Second is that it make its moral seem :rue. Boy Slaves fails in truth because its bad characters are not human but monstrous. ". . . one-third of a nation" fails in importance because its characters do not seem worth bothering about. And in addition to being inherently feeble, both pictures suffer from amateurish acting, writing and direction...