Word: doux
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...billet not too doux, M. Charles Maurras, Political Director of L'Action Français, Royalist journal of Paris, told Minister of the Interior Abraham Schrameck that a few thousand "patriots" would "shoot him like a dog" if he did not cease interfering with Royalist organizations. The matter went to court and last week M. Maurras was sentenced by default to two years' imprisonment. Appeal was entered...
...this all. "People are too busy in these days to make love . . . to write billets-doux." And the automobile is of course to blame. The loss of these dainty confections of literature is truly tragic. Yet the squinting scholar may smile amidst the grime of a blowout to thank his otherwise cursed machine for preventing the literary effusions of future Pamelas...
...rats squeak in deserted storerooms ; tiny pleasure-craft have replaced the tall schooners, rich Summer residents the bustling Tory merchants. However, quaint local traditions, local characters, still survive. There is the Poet Postman, unique Man of Letters, who for 30 years has delivered bills and dreamed of billet-doux, has written 1,000 poems, some of which have been published. He is painted in the exhibit by Orlando Ruland, who has also caught on canvas Daddy Scott, toymaker, who whittles wooden animals for Marblehead children...
...Tomorrow". M. Barthon is reported to have said after reading the latest Russian billet-doux, "tomorrow we will be packing our trunks or buying bathing suits." At present the choice of the French delegation is not know it does not greatly matter. The Genoa conference seems no nearer its supposed aim, the economic reconstruction of Europe, than when it heard Mr. Lloyd-George's first optimistic speech...
...better instincts. If it is true, it is a truth to make one blush for her sex." Just think of it! "Blush for her sex!" I don't believe an Amazonian virago could have felt more virtuous indignation if the postman had handed her a billet-doux without a coat-of-arms on the envelope...