Word: parties
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...
...maniquiur. In a franker bid for a picop, some apply lipstic from a vaniti-queis right out in the street. Depending on how much of a bigchot she attracts, a lucky girl will eat jot dogs and aiscrim, go to the muvis, drink jai bols at a cocteil parti, or perhaps even go for a dip in the boy friend's suiminpul...
...mayor, Ca-millien Houde (who spent some of the war years in a Canadian concentration camp for advising French Canadians not to register for the draft), De Bernonville's war record didn't look so bad. Houde and his nationalist friends were cooking up a new political party, Le Parti Canadien. De Bernonville looked like just what they needed to bring French Canadian voters running. He was a Roman Catholic. He could be made to seem a martyr to Ottawa's "implacable hatred" for Frenchmen and Roman Catholics...
...Montreal offices of the British United Press, dictated a blast against Ottawa's treatment of De Bernonville. "A crying injustice," charged Houde. Gustave Jobi-don, a Quebec City notary, cabled to ex-French Premier Robert Schuman: "French Canada is scandalized . . . Vive Pétain. Vive De Bernonville." Other Parti Canadien backers called De Bernonville "a hero of epic and legendary stature...
That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...