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...Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. ("Gipsy Moth," "Tiger Moth," "Hawk Moth"): $238,000 as against...
...Mortier wrote 'tiger' with a small 't,' and he used it simply as a comparison, not as a nickname. He wanted to be abusive, just as if you had called someone a pig or a toad...
...believe I am the creator of the sobriquet 'Tiger' with a capital 'T' as applied to M. Clémenceau." said Editor Emile Buré of the Paris daily L'Avenor last week. "I am proud of the achievement! It will perhaps furnish the only chisel ever likely to cut my name in the granite of History...
...then director of L'Aurore, and I was one of his editors. The caustic political sheet Le Gil Bias, which Mortier directed, published one day a very sarcastic attack on Clémenceau in which his character was described as being 'fierce as that of a tiger...
...significance struck me however, and for some days after that whenever M. Clémenceau would arrive in the morning, I would say: 'Here comes the "Tiger."' It gradually became a nickname to those of us who loved him, and little by little we always spoke of le patron ('the boss') as Le Tigre...