Word: dieu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...premature baby girl was there ahead of them, and another was on the way before the doctor could remove his coat, roll up his sleeves and wash his hands. Like a football quarterback, Dr. Dafoe passed another girl to the dumbfounded goodwives and another and another and another. "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu," sniffled Papa Dionne, fetching and pouring hot water. Fearing that none of the 9-in., 8-mo. mites would live long enough for a priest to arrive, he baptized each one himself, as Dr. Dafoe passed her back. With the birth of the fifth girl, who completed...
...been produced, but he did know Alex Stavisky well enough to sit in his box at a theatre. Socialists yelled for his head. Premier Daladier demanded his resignation, but as a face-saver offered him the Governor Generalship of Morocco. The telephone connection was very bad. "Mon Dieu!" cried Premier Daladier to the Cabinet Members in his office, "he refuses and says he will be in the street tonight." The Cabinet decided that Chiappe was going to lead a riot in person...
...clapped into jail. Mrs. Hardy, not seriously injured, tearfully inquired if he had a comfortable cell, if she might send him his pajamas. Two inspectors hurried out from Paris to take charge of the case and Bonnieres' Police Commissioner washed his hands of the business muttering "Ah, mon Dieu, ces Americains...
...Henri Pinteau, 17. Their parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
...morning of his suicide Ivar Kreuger bought the pistol at a small shop near his apartment. "Mon Dieu, how was I to know?" said the shopkeeper. "He seemed perfectly calm, parfaitement!" Only the Kreuger concierge noticed anything unusual, noticed that when the Match King came home with a package in his hand he did not smile or reply as he always had to the doorman's greeting. Going upstairs, Titan Kreuger wrote three letters in longhand to relatives, loosened his clothes, pulled the trigger...