Word: canard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pyrenees, Canaan, N.Y. Probably the best restaurant in the upper Hudson and Berkshire region. French food prepared by Chef Louis Cherallier, who takes special pride in his canard a I'orange, jealously guards the secret. Expensive...
...ignore the affair-just as the Gaullists had done during the December presidential election. Then, last week, the police moved in to arrest Figon, but, they reported, he had committed suicide before he could be taken alive. With that, the scandal could no longer be suppressed. As the satiric Canard Enchainé, right or wrong, put it last week: "Figon committed suicide with a shot fired against him from point-blank range." De Gaulle's campaign opponents, François Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet, demanded that the truth be told, flayed the Gaullists for trying to cover...
Such droll, needling cartoons are not softened a bit by the text they illustrate. Week in, week out, Charles de Gaulle comes under irreverent attack in the French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné (the Chained Duck...
...Socialists appeared last week on auto windshields across the nation, and nobody doubted for a minute who was the target. It was that well-known septuagenarian Charles de Gaulle, who faced an increasingly critical electorate for a second term as President of France. The satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine portrayed the general alongside the outmoded French "75" cannon of World...
...year boss at Paramount-and married the crown princess herself, L. B. Mayer's daughter Irene. L.B. imperiously refused to greet Selznick at the wedding, though when David at 30 returned to the M-G-M fold, wags quipped, "The son-in-law also rises." It was a canard that was not buried until Mayer's 1957 will, in which L.B. noted that Son-in-Law Selznick, unlike other members of the Mayer clan, "had never requested my assistance...