Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Star-Spangled Banner." In taking leave of Ambassador Herrick in the name of all Frenchmen, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré saluted, "that fine and good man . . . who leaves in our memory an image which nothing can destroy!" Movingly the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" described again how Mr. Herrick came to him in 1914, when the Germans were all but at the gates of Paris...
...Frederick Bate, Secretary of the Committee; 3) M. de Sanchez of the Morgan Company; 4) Leon Fraser, Paris representative of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert. In thus projecting on a higher plane the luncheon club habits of Babbitts, these junior tycoons confirmed the fixed belief of Frenchmen that "Americans are all alike...
Excepting only the Unknown Soldier, the last hero to lie beneath the Arc de Triomphe up to last week was Victor Hugo, 43 years ago. The emotion of Frenchmen was keyed to such a pitch that even the official tellers of the Chamber of Deputies−men chosen for no other quality than their incorruptible honor−majestically lied when the Communist Deputies voted against a bill granting $12,000 to defray the expenses of the funeral. Though every Communist who had thus voted rose and blatantly proclaimed the fact, the official count showed that the bill had passed unanimously...
...Four Frenchmen are correctly addressed as "M. le President": The President of France The President of the Cabinet The President of the Senate The President of the Chamber...
...fuming. The first month was the hardest. It climaxed in a duel between M. Georges Chapreau and M. le Marquis Henri de Sombrieul, both star reporters, who had rasped each other's nerves. However, since le Marquis fired into the ground, and M. Chapreau into the air-as Frenchmen will -the shots served happily to steady the nerves of all concerned. Last week the corps of reporters five was informed by the corps of physicians nine that quite possibly they would have to wait another two months, although of course they might...