Word: crying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the only particulars that the Nazi-controlled Paris press allowed to leak out of the city. But the Cri du Peuple was permitted to say that conditions suggested open warfare. The Vichy press admitted: "We can expect to see street incidents multiply." With the French it had obviously become a question of terror for terror...
...twice a month for 15 years, Paris letters signed "Genêt" have appeared in The New Yorker and have been among the best things in it. In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Genêt has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the dernière crise without slipping from a fashionable tone...