Word: dieu
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...onetime emotional-tragedienne, for years a member of Augustin Daly's famed stock company, until her retirement in 1895 one of the most popular of American actresses; at New Canaan, Conn., of heart disease. Cried Sarah Bernhardt, after seeing a performance by Clara Morris as Camille: "Mon Dieu! This woman does not act, she suffers...
...definite plan for the fiscal rehabilitation of France. There ensued seven days of picturesque wrangling and wirepulling, which the French press characterized almost unanimously as "scandalous." As the week closed, the Painlevé bill emerged momentarily to public view in a revised and amended form. Only Le Bon Dieu was aware what further and possibly indefinite modifications it might undergo before passing from the Committee into the Chamber itself...
Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
After this, King Albert muttered a fervent Dieu soit loué (God be praised) and dined Colonel House. Two days later, a vast worry removed from his mind, he opened the third Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in the Palais des Académies and received a rousing ovation from the 780 delegates...
...doctoresse Pelletier is the author of La Femme en Lutte pour ses Droits; Dieu, La Morale, La Patrie; L'Emancipation Sexuelle de la Femme; Philosophie Sociale; Mon Voyage Aventureux en Russie Communiste...