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...conversation to a series of polite generalities. There is a large intractable lump of the French population who want no traffic whatever with France's hereditary enemy. Fortunately they are far from a majority, but the rest demand results. Newspapers did their best to answer the question that all Frenchmen were asking, "What good will...
...Last week Betty Compton, musicomedy actress and good friend of Mayor Walker's, left the cast of Fifty Million Frenchmen at Glasgow, went to Harrogate, 200 mi. from London...
Reaction. Other Frenchmen had a word to say. Said the Paris-Midi...
...North, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), whom illness transmogrified from a scrupulous moralist into a ribald debauchee. The Président de Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most...
...Indian woman, grandmother of Vice President Curtis, is a "squaw'' (TIME, June 15, p. 13, col. 3). By the same reasoning, if any, aren't Irishmen "Micks'" and Frenchmen "Frogs"? All these terms spring from tne noble tradition of Anglo-Saxon superiority and are equally worthy of perpetuation. Is TIME deliberately slighting the "Chinks" and the "Wops...