Word: touquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through a crop of heavy spenders in the days when one way to drink champagne, supposedly, was out of ladies' evening slippers. Jenny Dolly (now dead), more spectacular than Rosie, once broke the Casino at Cannes, won 12,000,000 francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled...
...moon was up, dawn was a good hour away, the surf was deep. A Navy-borne British Commando eased up to the coast of northern France. From the dunes between Boulogne and Le Touquet, where vacationing Britons used to loll, Nazi searchlights fingered the Channel. But none found the Commando's barges until the last man in shorts, woolen cap and blackened face had waded ashore...
...detachment of Canadian Commandos crossed the Channel with sealed instructions to proceed to a certain building on the French coast. The building turned out to be Le Touquet Casino, where a dance was in progress. Their mission turned out to be to capture Field Marshal Hermann Göring, carry him, if they could, to their fast boat, and take him, if he did not sink it, back to England. They entered the hall, shot all officers present, returned emptyhanded. Reason for the failure of the mission: the fat man wasn't there...
...suite in Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon, gave him permission to come and go as he pleased within the confines of the Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid pro quo basis good conduct seemed hardly enough to warrant such great generosity from the Nazis. Then its logic appeared...
Before his capture, I enjoyed a very pleasant correspondence with Mr. Wodehouse. In his last letter, written to me, which was mailed shortly before the Germans seized him, Mr. Wodehouse informed me that he was sure the Germans would not penetrate Le Touquet...