Word: dieu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have ever read. There is no depth, no irony, only a flat-chested humor of the most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really but two-dimensional characters. They never really exist. With that amen of thankfulness, let us ask ourselves how, even in the greatness of the economic waste...
...Dieu Herrick! In a special railway baggage car - redecorated with potted plants and burning candles to resemble a chapelle ardente - the remains of Myron Timothy Herrick left Paris for Brest by special train...
...dieu!" cried Madame La Maréchale as she saw the half open front door and rushed frantically within. The house had been ransacked. Silver, jewelry and securities to the value of 50,000 francs were gone-not much in the U. S., scarcely $2,000, but much to grizzled Joseph Joffre. When excited gendarmes came, the Marshal, no longer his fat self of younger days but very thin and trembly, exclaimed, "Whoever burglarized my house was no Frenchman. That, I could not believe...
Also at Windsor, Ontario, little Lorraine Goyeau died in convulsions at the Hotel Dieu, after being bitten by another mad kitten...
...leading of the New York Symphony Orchestra-through the first U. S. performance of Ernest Halffter's Sinfonietta and his own orchestral transcription of Albeniz's La Fete de Dieu a Seville and Triana-was graceful, gentle & genteel...