Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...borrowed from the book of Henri Christophe, the slaveborn general who helped free Haiti from the French, in 1811 proclaimed himself King Henry I. A Christophe decree, later made law, ordered that people coming to town on feast days should be neatly dressed. The democratic Estime revived it as one means of making Haiti as prosperous as it had been under the high-handed Christophe...
...tone left for the ballads. And Kay, who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation (she is a mixture of Irish, Iroquois, Cherokee and Choctaw), was beginning to look like a girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold more than 100,000 copies in three months. And Capitol Records, which seems to know when it has something (it also has such top girl singers as Jo Stafford, Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee), had recorded 24 songs by Kay before the Petrillo...
...snow lay five feet deep. It was dry and powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz (pop. 2,500) had set up 4,000 extra beds, which would not be nearly enough. For St. Moritz...
...Scotts fitted easily into Ottawa society-the society, basically, of a small town (despite its 154,951 population) that depends less on money than on knowing people and being of respectable family. The Scotts had little money, but they gave their daughter everything they could afford. She went to the Ottawa Normal Model School, got plenty of dolls, and a pair of ice skates when she was six. Until Barbara Ann was ten, her mother made all her clothes. She was the kind of little girl who was nev.er mussed or wrinkled. She kept dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and white...
Marseille, a city of small buildings (the largest is nine stories) had never seen anything just like it. Neither had any other town. Under construction last week was a glassy 17-story apartment house, perched lightly on stilts, to stand in the middle of an eight-acre park (traffic will move freely underneath it). To get this modernity built, France's Ministry of Reconstruction had set aside $3 million and lifted all rationing on concrete and steel...