Word: conspuez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patrolled the streets of the Latin Quartier, traffic was held up. Here and there, a few venturesome voices sang the Internationale, which was instantly drowned in roars of the Marseillaise. All doors were picketed by groups of students who had wisely provided themselves with food and wine. Shouts of "Conspuez Herriot!" (literally, "Spit upon Herriot!"), "A has Georges Scelle!'' "Vive le roil" "A has la Republique!" were frequently heard. Police and the Garde Republicaine were called out, attempted to restore order...
...somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty receives a Good Mark, but conspuez those arrant sentimentalists whose damsels begin counting their scalps at the unripe age of eighteen and even less...
Printed as one of the planks on a CRIMSON "platform" poster set high on the walls of the office so that all who run may read are the words "Conspuez the Advocate". Truely, a barbarous suggestion clothed in barbarous language, indicative of an era of less kindly feeling! That the Advocate has never taken offense thereat must be due to the fact that it has never read, and this, perhaps, because it has never...
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