Word: clemenceau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Best hater of Stresemann was Clemenceau. Last week Clemenceau was thumb-nailed by the only woman except his daughters to whom he left money (100,000 frs: $3,930), his stenographer, Mme. Pernoud...
...morning I was summoned to go to Clemenceau's home," said she in Paris, "I was warned above all not to put rouge on my lips, and not to wear high-heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has a horror of all those things in women,' I was told. Moreover, I had to use a goose quill pen, because the Tiger always hated the grating of steel pens. I consented to sacrifice these feminine vanities, and went not without trembling to the door of this 'terror of ministers,' this irascible enemy of governments...
...received with the utmost cordiality. From the first morning that I worked with Clemenceau I learned of his great heart, his unfailing generosity, and his great respect for humble folk. . . . His grandeur was that of a god, but his simplicity attached him to earth...
...People were wrong to say that Clemenceau was an antifeminist. In giving women franchise and social liberty, he did fear the influence on them by the clergy. Accordingly he was against too much power for women in Catholic countries. The Protestant religion he considered more as a philosophy, and he admitted therefore that universal suffrage was feasible in Protestant countries...
Prince Bismarck. President Wilson, President Harding, "Tiger" Clemenceau, Napoleon III and Alexandre Dumas fils had only one weakness in common: prostatic hypertrophy...