Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War I broke out, no one responded more fervently to the cause of France than pretty, earnest Kathleen Burke of London. First she raised $4,000,000 for Allied hospitals, then she went to France as a war nurse, was wounded at Verdun, gassed at Valenciennes, and made 18 Atlantic crossings during the height of the submarine peril. When the war was over, she had won a permanent place in the hearts of Frenchmen. They called her "The Angel of France...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, wife of the old Marshal of Verdun and Vichy, now sharing his exile on the Ile d'Yeu, brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
...Beta Kappas have flunked them and law-review editors have gotten Ds. Once he gave such a stiff examination that 31 out of his 35 students failed it. Later, the students gave him a dinner and presented him with a medal. On it was etched the motto of Verdun: Ils ne passeront pas (They shall not pass...
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 92, hero of Verdun in World War I, and head of Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...
...double-breasted grey suit. Eugene Donnelly wore a silk hat. Frank Spina, Harry Truman's Kansas City barber, had a new silk guidon, three times regulation size, inscribed in gold with the names of the places where Battery D had fought: the Vosges Mountains, the Meuse-Argonne, Verdun. Four sleeping cars rolled eastward...