Word: berthon
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...accident or design, Lawyer Berthon, marking his points slowly with outstretched forefinger, suddenly found it in the mouth of one of the babies and cried "ouch!" In London this made the headline-of-the-week in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: BABY BITES LAWYER AT FRENCH SPY-GANG TRIAL. In Paris tender newshawks reported gushingly upon the infant and how it had just cut four milk teeth...
...acquittal of 20-year-old Mlle. Germaine Berthon of shooting Marius Plateau, an editor of L' Action Française (TIME, Dec. 31), received the following comment from the Paris press...
...Gaulois demanded: "Under what aberration could the French citizens on the jury yesterday lend themselves to the glorification of anarchy? . . . In freeing Germaine Berthon they gave a premium to communism and anarchy." Le Gaulois thought that the case, instead of belittling the Royalists, shows France really needs a dictator if democratic juries cannot render a better verdict...
...Intransigeant thought that the jury had given France a poor Christmas present (Mlle. Berthon was acquitted Dec. 24) and called the verdict worse than absurd...
...moments later the man found himself on a little platform. "Let everything go to hell," he cried, "Let everything go to hell, but my mother and my lawyer. Vive Jaurès! Vive l'Anarchie! Vive Germaine Berthon! Vive les Russes...