Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singing behind their arrested leader; when Germans who were once social and political enemies fall hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting Germany will lose the War; when the Battle of Verdun makes so many of his playmates orphans; when people, tired of Death and Patriotism, bootleg food under police noses; when two mutilated soldiers symbolically reveal the blood beneath the flag waving...
...Public Instruction and Fine Arts under Premier Poincaré. In 1925 he did a brilliant six-months' job as French High Commissioner for Syria. Returning to Paris in 1926, he later began La Revue des Vivants with the help of other War survivors (his Croix de Guerre is for Verdun). Now aged 53, he continues in the French Senate, a potent member of the foreign affairs committee. His book about France's Mirabeau might be in a measure paralleled in the U.S. if Senator Borah should break the tradition of inartisticness in U. S. politics and write a frank, intelligent, amusing...
...back into your memories!" doomed the cello. "Have you forgotten that it was at the moment of Verdun that America joined us in the War? ... I had then the formidable honor of being the head of the Government of France. I know whereof I speak. The enemy was in the suburbs of Verdun. Those were hours of anguish! No one then believed that victory would perch upon our flags...
...Verdun! In that desperate moment we called upon the men of the United States for our just cause. However bitter may be our internal debates in this painful discussion, I can hear the heart of France beating in gratitude to America! I am saying these words so that the people across the seas will know that there are some moments Frenchmen will never forget...
...French Cabinet, it was decided that "the dignity of the title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes...