Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked up the story. Many were draped in black, to show that a member of the lodge had been killed in the pits since the last gala. Pictures and slogans told of hopes and fears. Many banners said "The Lord is my strength." One showed a miner leaving his wife and child; it was called "His Last Goodmorning...
Luchaire was well prepared as an advocate of French-German reconciliation. His father had served Briand at the League of Nations, his stepmother was Stresemann's secretary and biographer. Jean's wife waved the flag of rapprochement in her own way: she became Stresemann's mistress, took Jean's daughter Corinne to Germany with her. Little Corinne so charmed Stresemann's friend, Banker Kurt von Schroeder, that the rich old man took her into his home...
...piquant and beautiful film actress, Corinne Luchaire had grown up among the "respectable" Nazis that frequented Banker von Schroeder's mansion. There, too, she had met Otto Abetz. Politically, Otto was faithless to France; personally, he was faithless to his wife Suzanne and the son that symbolized their pre-Nazi ideal. Before he was expelled from France in 1939, Otto Abetz made 17-year-old Corinne Luchaire his mistress...
...accessible for interviews, at which he does nearly all the talking-in French, with a rasping Turkish accent. Midnight strollers in Damascus often see Zaim's Cadillac, preceded and followed by armored jeeps and outriders, speeding home from the Defense Ministry to the dictator's pretty young wife and two children (she is about to have a third...
Zaim's model seems to be neither Mussolini nor Franco, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the maker of modern Turkey. Damascus, until recently one of the most orthodox Moslem capitals in the Middle East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...