Word: valensi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tamer with Pinder's traveling circus. He was fired after his first appearance, when an elephant which he was supposed to lead around the ring refused to budge. Steinmann took his problem to a Paris lawyer who in turn took it to court. "To say," roared Lawyer Theodore Valensi, demanding 1,500,000 francs damages, "that a lion tamer cannot control an animal as docile as an elephant is the worst of insult...
...court listened attentively, and agreed to let Steinmann enter a cage of lions, tigers or black panthers("Panthers," said Lawyer Valensi, "are the most ill-tempered beasts"), and prove his courage...
Steinmann entered the cage in awful silence. He tripped and quickly saved himself. The lions snarled, but none of them moved from the tight phalanx they had formed in the cage's center. Finally one jumped on a pedestal. "Bravo!" shouted Lawyer Valensi. Two minutes later another lion lazily climbed onto his pedestal. "Fini," cried Circus Master Bouglione. "Get him out of there. He doesn't know what he's doing. He'll make a buffet lunch for those lions...
...retaliation the enraged Nazis seized as hostages onetime Minister of Justice Pierre Masse, onetime Deputy Théodore Valensi, more than 100 unnamed Jews. Three alleged Communist hostages were hustled from a prison camp near Paris, backed against a wall and executed. In the Paris suburbs the Nazis rounded up three "bands of militants." Ten "Argentine citizens" with insufficient identification papers were arrested. A "Spanish gang" of 38 was locked...