Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...like Dallas D. L. McGrew '03, of the Boston Journal, the interest is multiplied tenfold. In the current number of the Illustrated, Mr. McGrew tells what the American Ambulance is doing and can do in its service on the French battle-front. His comment on the attitude of the Frenchmen to the United States is straight to the point. "France feels . . . . that she is fighting for the preservation of the principles of liberty and the rights of the individual, the principles which underlie the existence of the American nation. In other words, the men composing that most democratic of institutions...
Speaking on "The Spirit of France Today," M. Hugues LeRoux, editor of the Paris "Matin" and special envoy from France to President Wilson, declared in the Union last night that 500,000 young Frenchmen were in their graves because of German materialism. He illustrated his talk with graphic descriptions of the heroic efforts of the French to save their country. France does not believe in war and the leaders would willingly stop fighting but the Germans feel that they are striving for liberty and have turned the war into a kind of revolution with the annexing of Belgium and France...
This year the Cercle plans to have regular meetings every three weeks at which distinguished Frenchmen will be asked to speak...
...afternoon to the tune of 14 to 13. The final score is more or less problematic because the last of the three umpires, about to announce the score, slipped on wet ground and broke his word. The knock-out drops of Francke and Pabst were too much for the Frenchmen who passed out repeatedly after three feeble whiffs at the pellet. The afternoon was voted a most successful one by all present...
Word has been received that the French Government has created President Lowell an officer of the Legion of Honor. Such a distinction is given to Frenchmen and, less often, to foreigners only in recognition of eminent services rendered to the French nation. That it has been conferred upon President Lowell shows the high esteem in which he is held in France. It is evidence further that the French believe that he has been highly influential in arousing among Americans an interest in France and promoting friendship between the two nations. President Lowell's efforts that have resulted in putting upon...