Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drizzling rain made no difference. The great night had come. In the Chamber there would be delirious hours of such oratory as Frenchmen love to wallow in. Sonorous snatches and smart mots would drift out to the magpie crowd. They parbleu, would not wait to read in the papers that at the climax of this Parliamentary orgy the Chamber had sustained or overthrown the Cabinet boldly formed last fortnight in defiance of party leaders by "The Most American of Frenchmen," driving, militant, iconoclastic Andre Tardieu (TIME...
Colonial--Opening tonight, "Fifty Million Frenchmen", with William Gaxton and Genevieve Tobin...
...grooming as his successor for two years past at least. All France knows the long, rumbling name; André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu. He has two nicknames, first Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), second L'Americain?for snappy, humorless, combative André Tardieu is supposed to be "the most American of Frenchmen...
...group of excited Frenchmen called at the office of the French Administrator of Tangier. Loudest was the owner of Tangier's only French cinema. He was the victim of a political plot, he cried. Spanish citizens of Tangier were planning an anti-French boycott...
...where Chinese and Russians have been fighting off and on for three months (TIME, July 22 et seq.). Two grimy men clambered out of the machine, then scrambled for a barricade, for threatening natives were running at them. The aviators gestured placatingly. They tried to pantomime that they were Frenchmen. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them to land willy-nilly. The Chinese insisted that they were Russian spies...