Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whizz! Whirr! With humming tires and throbbing motor there sped down a deserted road near Epernay the great Marshal Pétain-who once held Verdun against Germany's Crown Prince...
...American Club members he retold how he had helped make eau potable a wide reality in France. It began at Verdun, during the War. Water was polluted; typhoid threatened the troops. He invented an automatic device to pump hypochlorite of soda into the drinking water. Two and a half to five pounds of hypochlorite liberated enough chlorine to kill the germs in one million gallons of water...
Nobly borne upon a rumbling gun carriage came the coffin of Fayolle, he who succeeded Petain and held Verdun through the dire summer of 1917. Like most of the French Marshals, he was once a Professor at the Ecole de Guerre; and time has vindicated his numerous original doctrines de la concentration des feux et des moyens (theories of laying down a barrage...
...manuscript of the present volume the General Staff declared him insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that." But the company cook, who had been chef to the king of Greece, thought the death of Narcissus on the rocks of Arcady pleasanter than a bloody grave in the confusion...
...graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who had been killed at Verdun; he made the grating that sur rounds the perpetual fire under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...