Word: rue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks like a melancholy mechanic, recently returned to Paris after five war years in Manhattan. He works in a cold, dreary atelier on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, warns visitors to "please keep your hat on, otherwise you will catch cold." One of Léger's happiest memories of the U.S. is the Ringling Bros, circus. Last year he painted two pictures of it which had all the power, but not the heavy complexity, of his usual stuff. They so impressed a Manhattan dealer that he decided to build a show of U.S. artists around them...
...Quel malheur . . . another one," sighed Monsieur René Besniers. A jeep had just crashed into the window of his Paris pharmacy. Since Druggist Besniers opened his shop at the teeming corner of rue Dunkerque and rue du Faubourg Poissonière 36 years ago, 108 different vehicles have hurtled into his store...
...Sparrow's voice, low and husky, was in character too. After she had sung, with a weary little smile, Un monsieur me suit dans la rue ("A gentleman follows me down the street"), there was a long, silent pause, then a storm of applause. The Sparrow accepted the outburst as her rightful due. For had she not been, for ten years, one of Paris' most sought-out chanteuses? Now, with les saies boches gone and postwar visitors in Paris, her songs of sacred and profane love were making her an international favorite...
...three minutes France's uneasy unity flew apart. President Charles de Gaulle summoned his ministers to the presidential offices in the dingy old War Ministry building in the Rue St. Dominique. Said he: "I have had enough. I do not want to assume direction of a Government in which political parties or groups do not cease to attack me." Then his long legs carried him from the room, past saluting sentries, to his car which drove him to suburban Neuilly. There, like any good bourgeois, Charles de Gaulle had a hearty Sunday dinner before going for a drive...
Back in the Rue St. Dominique, bewildered newsmen tried to find out whether De Gaulle, who had resigned twice before in the past three months, really meant it. His secretary, Gaston Palewski, said: "General de Gaulle ... has left his post, and this is irrevocable. He is retiring definitely from political life...