Word: bleu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, when Le Train Bleu glided into Monte Carlo Station, His Highness Prince Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac, Due de Valentinois, and Comte de Polignac, stepped forth before suspicious, hostile eyes. Proud, race-conscious Monégasques (Monaco natives) despise Prince Pierre as a mere naturalized citizen of Monaco, and a black-hearted Frenchman under his skin. They sneer at the means by which he became Crown Prince-married into it, faugh...
Petulant and glum, last week, was the mood of famed Actor-Manager M. Sacha Guitry. Sacré bleu! Why were not more people clambering to see his Charles Lindbergh-his "heroic melodrama" in 30 scenes? What could be the matter? Had not finickiest critics praised the piece (TIME, Dec. 3.); and had not the first few audiences risen to shout "Vive Lindbergh! Vive La France...
...World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble into the tonneau, crying, "En route Henri...
Something about a Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed stockade for transient White Slavers...
...police, knowing their mob, avoided trouble by debarking Algeria's Barbe Bleu at the island in the harbor of Marseilles on which stands the Chateau d'If, made famed by Duma's Monte Cristo...