Word: wagram
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...Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight at 7! Silence to the insulters of the Soviet Union! The way to prevent the meeting is to get there first...
...Police Are with Us." The fog was lifting as demonstrators streamed toward the Avenue de Wagram, coming on foot, silently and purposefully, from all directions...
...scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...
Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou, an eccentric Rumanian, is a theory of poetry as "rhythmic architecture." The rapidly growing hordes of Lettrists scorn practically all non-Lettrist poets, and prefer meaningless combinations of letters to dictionary words. Founder Isou was planning last week to hire the Salle Wagram, one of Paris' biggest auditoriums, to denounce his opponents publicly. A typical Lettrist poem looks like a passage from Finnegans Wake translated into Esperanto...
...bumper business which he still runs as a sideline. His next venture was putting prizes-cheap necklaces and silk stockings-in boxes of candy sold in Paris theatres. When the Government stopped this, on the ground that it was a lottery, he used the profits to buy the Salle Wagram, where, as an enthusiastic boxing fan, he hoped to improve the bouts...