Word: cherchez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like a mistake. He doped Boston College to be beaten. Imagine! And now for the first time he, or rather I, because I'll get all mixed up if I try to go on in the third person, now I will tell you how it happened. In a word, "Cherchez la femme." Yes, Joe Forecast, Flint-Hearted Joe as they used to call me in the old days, fell before a woman's wiles. I need not tell my readers how the Forecast heart beat quicker and the Forecast pulse raced faster. Suffice to say, I was in love...
...would go to the Hotel Crillon and at once order "a New England boiled dinner" that two of the lesser journals reported he had done so. What did this unnatural-in-an-American conduct portend? Obviously a secret conference was to be held upon the Ile St. Louis. Cherchez le conference...
What have we done? Like Cornell we have succeeded in "estranging the Metropolitan press," for the "New York Tribune," shuddering (in its 100 percent virility) at the thought of afternoon teas at Harvard, indulges in an editorial entitled "Cherchez les Femmes." For it is logical to assume that woman is at the bottom of the push buttons, the jam and toast and all the luxuries provided by the Union. As good as its word the "Tribune" traces the source of the evil from the tinkling tea-cups to 10 Garden street, which, as we all know is only "two blocks...