Word: droits
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...books that are always impeccably elegant, and 47-year-old Renée Massip's La Regente is a sensitive psychological study of an unhappy girl and a domineering mother. French women writers, as diverse in personality as in subject matter, range from glamorous Silvia Monfort, 30, whose Droit Chemin is about a professor who tries to command people as he commands ideas, to Danielle Roland, 38, the retiring wife of a physician, who wrote a moving fantasy (L'Huissier et le Sergent) of a Milquetoast dreaming about strength...
...city. On her way she met Sir Walter Raleigh, who, observing her naked condition, threw his cloak about her, crying, "Honi soit qui mat y pense!', which, being translated, means: 'Thy need is greater than mine!' The Queen graciously responded, 'Dieu et mon droit!', which translated means, 'My God, you are right!' This incident is called the Magna Charta...
...master of the House, also the Count of Almaviva, played by Jerome H. Kohn '52, tries to cut in on his servant by making use of the venerable "droit do seigneur." But the Countess (Roshane Danjhibhey) tricks her mate into fidelity with the help of a page named Cheribino (John O. Gates...
...What kind of French shall we speak in 25 years?" asked Ottawa's Le Droit last week. "Will the laborer's jargon, which we know is composed of French and English badly pronounced, be purified . . ? Will the language of commerce, renouncing its innumerable borrowings from English, be a truly French language...
Last week the U.S. Consulate in Toronto announced that expatriated Americans may regain their lost citizenship simply by applying to any U.S. diplomatic officer in Canada before next Aug. 7. For the repatriation process, Ottawa's Le Droit coined the word-of-the-week: "reyankification...