Word: cagoulard
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Before World War II, Pétain's name was involved with the fascist Cagoulard attempt to seize power. As Ambassador to Spain, he and Dictator Franco were as close as two eggs in a pan. In the spring of 1940 a cry for the "Strong...
...Flower Belle, Mae West spreads her gorgeous corolla (including a butterfly bow that coyly punctuates her posterior rhythms) in Greasewood City, one of the West's wide-open places. There she gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard. Flower Belle's throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes a goat...
Year and a half ago, when the Cagoulard ("Hooded Men'') Fascist conspiracy was discovered, police searched Paris for arms deposits. At the home of Mme Baudoin they found a machine gun and other war like implements. She was tried and convicted for unlawful possession of arms...
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