Word: beaucoups
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...their shipboard chum, scrawny French Poet Jean Cocteau, who is trying to win a bet with a Paris newspaper by equaling the record of Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. If he wins. Poet Cocteau writes 20 articles for the paper for "beaucoup de francs." If he loses, he writes them free...
France: "Macy beaucoup...
Sirs: In your issue of Feb. 11, there is a letter from J. B. Scott, Beacon, N. Y., under the caption "Not Free," which states, in part, as follows: "The Y. M. C. A. did not practice giving away anything-unless 'beaucoup francs' were pressed on them by the soldiery." It happened that while I was reading this letter, there was on my desk five typewritten folios, embracing 1,250 pages, covering the report of the Inspector General of the A. E. F., on the investigation of the Y. M. C. A. with the American Expeditionary Forces...
...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...
...suis fort honore, et permettez que je vous felicite de l'idee quivous a conduit a m' exprimer votre sympathie dans ce milieu qui deja m'est familier et sous cette forme que je trouve des plus originales. Savez-vous que yotre fete est des plus reussies! . . . et que beaucoup regretteront de n'avoir pu y assister! . . . Elle me rappelle notamment certaine fete annuelle que nous avons, nous aussi a Paris-ce fameux bal des quatre arts dont vos anciens vous auront transmis l'echo ou que certains parmi vous deja connaissent; mais, ce que je trouve surtout charmant dans...