Word: vieux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French truck drivers, drawing triple pay, were going out of Leftist Spain last week sporting gold wrist watches, silk socks & shirts, smoking the best cigars. At restaurants just inside the French border they could be seen swizzling champagne, ordering such delicacies as speckled trout, fresh asparagus, vieux cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week...
...since Mr. Hopkins would not let him have its spending) and the New Deal's retaliatory income tax evasion suits against the Longster tribe. By last week all that was changed. The President and his son were whisked away to Antoine's, famed old restaurant in the Vieux Carre, to eat Proprietor Roy Alciatore's specialties: oysters Rockefeller and Pompano en papillate. Only a small company were present, for too many Longsters might have spoiled Louisiana's new era political soup...
Down at the end of the alley is the Vieux Port. From here Edmund Dantes, the Abbe Faria and other prisoners were taken to Chateau d'If. The prison isn't as romantic looking as Paramount did it for. The Count of Monte-Cristo-but it's all there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed...
...Administrator Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, laid out the site of New Orleans "in the form of a parallelogram, 4,000 feet long by 1,800 feet deep" and set a crew of convicts to work building the city. The area he marked off now constitutes the Vieux Carré, the old French Quarter of New Orleans, some 165 acres of picturesque wickedness, romantic associations, narrow streets and old Spanish dwellings, bounded by the Mississippi River, and Canal, Esplanade and Rampart Streets. It has been successively favored as a home for convicts, aristocrats, thieves and prostitutes, Italian immigrants...
...vieux carré, Lillian McDowell, whose profession was listed as "cabaret hostess," teetered out of a saloon with a man she had picked up. Soon she staggered back inside clutching her stomach and moaning: "Slim cut me." Hostess McDowell died. Police began looking for "Slim...