Word: frenchwomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's guests was Marie Dubas, a top Parisian torchsinger whose hair, like that of many Frenchwomen, has turned red as she has approached middle age. She took off with a harrowing recitation of Kipling's My Son, then did three songs. The best: Mon Coco, Mon Coquin du Coin du Quai (My Sweetie, My Little Rascal from the Corner of the Wharf...
...months ago her father, Publisher Jean Luchaire of Le Matin, had been shot as the archcollaborator of the Paris press during the occupation. There was nothing much anyone could say for his daughter. Said the judge: "While Frenchwomen suffered and fought, you led a gay life. . . ." Quavered Corinne: "I was young and stupid . . . I did not realize. . . ." Cried her lawyer: "What can you expect of a girl brought up in the depths of the elite...
...voting day all forecasts of an apathetic electorate proved wron?. Some 19.000.000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen trooped to the polls. By a decisive majority France voted...
...Frenchwomen have the vote, she said, they will get generous doses of current affairs and politics in Elle, besides chapters of Colette's new autobiographical novel, L'Etoile Vesper...
...Fourth Republic was born. Some 24,000,000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen trooped to their country's first free election since 1936. By a resounding majority they chose a Constituent Assembly by the Left, ordered it to frame a new Constitution, approved a strong executive interim government...