Word: alsatians
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...Canberra last week the Commonwealth Government passed a law definitely prohibiting the importation of Alsatian Shepherd dogs ("German police dogs") into Australia. Bluntly, the legislature recommended extermination of the breed in Australia...
...little pink Princess was put into a cradle used by the children of King Albert. Of Alsatian design, with rubber-tired wheels, the cradle was optimistically decorated in pink, the color for boys...
...Colmar, in Alsace-Lorraine, a beady-eyed French lawyer stuck out his right forefinger, wagging it before the broad, shiny nose of an Alsatian priest, the Abbe Haegy. "Ha!" snorted the lawyer, "look me in the eye! Look into the eyes of a Frenchman, M. l'Abbé, and tell me if you will not shout with me 'VIVE LA FRANCE...
...long moment the Abbe Haegy hesitated. He owns several newspapers whose policy looks toward the eventual autonomy of Alsace. He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing his patriotism as an Alsatian. Now this French lawyer was wagging a hypnotic finger and demanding that the Abbe declare himself on the side of France, which now holds Alsace-Lorraine...
...present, despatches told, celebrated the instantaneous Frenchification of honest Alsatian Abbe Haegy by joining with him and the presiding magistrate in fervent hymning of "La Marseillaise...