Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...promises Europe final victory, one is not committed to sparing it blows . . . Would not the wisest policy be to leave Western Europe a certain autonomy, which would reduce its chances of being drawn into the fight?" Next day, Le Monde began a series on the weakness of the French army...
...want to star in French postcards," protested bountifully endowed Cinemactress Marie (My Friend Irma) Wilson in a spirited defense of the low-cut evening gown. "I just want to add a little life to the American postcards...
Undergraduate tutors at Phillips Brooks House are accustomed to unusual requests for aid, but one that they received recently may be hard to grant. The request was for a student who speaks Dutch well; the tutee knows neither French nor German...
...mainly called upon to interrupt the general's love affairs to moralize about his lust and to arouse his affection by attempting suicide. Two other parts, however, afford rich characterizations for the actresses who play them. Jacqueline Daly is very entertaining as the General's feline, hair-mussing French mistress, and Irene Moore has a great deal of primeval charm as the native girl whom he makes pregnant...
After the French made St. Valentine's day a success by all this fast talk (this is where the expression "a fast line" comes from), a couple of ornithologists got mad at the etymologists for grabbing all the publicity with their theory. These ornithologists stopped examining each other's eyes long enough to start a whispering campaign claiming that February 14 marked the first day that the birds began to mate...