Word: argent
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...huge moral courage, letting him learn anew the significance of the motto, or the Forecast coat-of-arms. We stood together in my library my hand on little Joe's shoulder; and I pointed to the famous Forecast crest--crossed shovels, a sitting bull couchant on a field gules argent, with the scutcheon emblazoned "Nimmermehr Alibi" And I said, "My son, remember this and live up to it as I have done...
...Argent and Vert" is another failure. It suggests an attempt to amuse the assembled company despite toothache or gout. Its conclusion loses what force it may have had in the original in antidiluvian times, largely because the translator seems incapable of excluding any words seeking admittance and employment after the gates should close...
...mier was born in 1865, was a young lad when Germany laid seige to Paris. He was brought up to be a parfumeur, for, as his parents remarked, il y a la beaucoup d'argent a gagner. Unfortunately for the perfumery business, and fortunately for the theatre, the youthful Gémier developed an immense facility for mimicry. Once he imitated his employer so successfully that the latter, arriving inopportunely, became angry and instantly discharged...
...regard to the payment of the first installment of pledges to the Class Fund has been very gratifying. There are still, however, nearly 100 men who have overlooked this obligation. Please let me hear from every man in the class before Class Day, as we are in argent need of ready money...
Alexandre Dumas fils, (1824-1895), owed the first success of his celebrity to "La Dame aux Camelias", and "Question d'Argent." As Augier, although in a different way, he is especially a moralist and his attacks are directed against the vices of his time. "Le Fils Natural" and "Le Pere Predigue" are the two sides of one same social thesis. He also laughs at ill matched marriages. The aim of Dumas in to rebuild Society by means of the family, and the family, by means of love. He declared that always and everywhere he aimed at an "ideal of love...