Word: canard
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...turned out, this was nothing but a canard. Quitting was the last thing in the mind of Jack Blanton, a dignified, slender man with alert eyes and a bald-eagle head. One of the best-known country newspapermen in the U.S., Editor Blanton, winner of a University of Missouri award for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1939, was still at work, and was going to stay there for a long time...
...barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still 100% Americans in the crowd, there were some, groaned the weekly Samedi-Soir in feigned unhappiness, "who asked for catsup with the canard presse...
Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...
...know," he said, "the highest pitch of French cuisine is canard faisandé-duck that has been hung a long time, so you can smell the bouquet. Very enjoyable to the educated nose. But if you offer it to the workers they will throw the rotten duck out, unless they throw it in your face. Now . . . the kitchen of the high bourgeoisie will make the proletarian vomit, and the paintings of the high bourgeoisie will make him vomit too-though this is nothing against the duck, or against modern...
Cannon in the Dining Room. Catholic students raided the hotel, scratched out the brief blasphemy and mutilated Rivera's self-portrait as well. The hotel management hastily boarded up the whole thing.* Today, customers in the Del Prado's wine-carpeted dining room nibble their canard faisandé before a decorous red screen, on the other side of which Rivera's painting stands like a hidden cannon...