Word: beret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caparisoned in a tank-corps beret, ensconced in a tank, the avenging Montgomery rode on deep and dangerous tours of the battlefield, his pale blue eyes and his thin beak of a nose turned west, farther west. Methodically, ruthlessly, he followed up the bloody, broken trail of the Afrika Korps...
...early evening Albert Clément and his wife left the office of Le Cri du Peuple on the Rue Vivienne and started toward the boulevard. A small bicyclist, standing near by in a dark blue beret and shirt, suddenly pushed his wheel into the Cléments and fired four pistol shots, killing M. Clément and wounding his wife...
...Pistols suddenly cracked in the streets-at a Nazi sergeant, at a civilian official of the Occupation Army, at a second Nazi noncom. Marcel Gitton, a former Communist deputy who had recently played ball with the Nazis, was shot dead by a young bicyclist in blue jeans and a beret. Despite death sentences threatened for railway sabotage, roundhouse turntables on the Paris-Brittany main line were blown...
...Madrid last week it was officially reported that Spain had at last concluded an accord with the Vatican and unofficially reported that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had won the right to appoint Spanish bishops (see p. 65). With this feather in its beret, Spain's one party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, which has fought to make the Spanish Catholic Church, not Roman, but Spanish, next day won an even greater victory: success in the long tug of war between Spain's politicians and soldiers...
Notes on People and Stuff: Al Gilbert in a white turtle-neck sweater and a beret . . . President James Byrant Conant in an exquisitely cut six-button tweed--why is he only the fifth best dressed man? I don't think Max Baer's got anything on him . . . W. Russell Bowie, Jr., President of that delicious Harvard Lampoon, in a palmbeach suit and a steamer rug . . . of course Lucius Beebe came in a trolley...