Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations meets to day to resume those discussions which last May proyed so fruitless as to warrant their long adjournment. Within the last week, France has made it only too clear that President Coolidge's somewhat ill-timed proposal can expect no Gallic support. And Russia still stands aloof on the edge of Europe, an inevitable bar to any effective disarmament in Europe...
...tariff, with which to foster young domestic industries, but it is perhaps as well that it has not. For debating is not to be revived by the exclusion of foreign samples. The solution lies rather in a change of attitude, and if there be those to suggest the Gallic barbarian listening before the tribune of the Roman senators, we need not in our pride be overly distressed...
...grows sentimental, a trifle lazy. Mr. Skinner is growing old. So there is some reason for his leaving the donkey and the organ for the beaver and the cane of Colonel Phillipe, defender of the honor of the family and so many, many francs! Francs! There the Gallic flavor enters. One wonders if this should not be recommended to the business school. Not in many moons has the power of a franc appeared so vast...
This week, the S-35 was scheduled to make trial flights along the Atlantic seaboard. Then, three motors thundering, tricouleur and Stars-and-Stripes whipping, she will dare greatly, her three intrepid manipulators tense at their posts in a cabin which, with true Gallic esprit, le Capitaine Fonck has had decorated in gold, silver, cream and mahogany...
...Eskimos on the headlands of Labrador and Hudson's Bay for two centuries. Besides traveling in Siberia and soldiering in France, Captain Mallet has visited these hardy trappers many times. Evidently he has found time for good reading on his trips, or maybe it is through his Gallic inheritance that he comes by the lucid, restrained prose in which, a page or two at a time, he relates brief episodes of camp and trail. They are quiet, unpretentious little sketches, dramatized no whit, yet filled with the mystery and magnitude of nature, wild and human, that the writer...