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...West, the month-old war seemed virtually over before it had even begun, and there began a period of mysterious inertia on both sides. The British called it the phony war, the French drole de guerre, the Germans Sitzkrieg. But the war was not over. It had barely started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blitzkrieg September 1, 1939: a new kind of warfare engulfs Poland | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...Common Market nations even while arguing De Gaulle's unpopular notions of French sovereignty and his opposition to the idea of supranationality in any form. As the new High Commissioner packed his bags to go to Algeria, he said of his new post only: "C'est pas drole" (It's no joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE TRANSITION TEAM | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Auspitz: Ce n'est pas drole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Love Game | 12/5/1961 | See Source »

...Drole de Dame, also called "Bizarre, Bizarre," Director Marcel Carne dashes across the scene on his bicycle, gaily splashing mud on every English social cliche available. The hypocrite vicar, upstart servants and Scotland Yard all are thrown in to comment on the pitifully high state of English morals. Carne wraps stolid England up in a ball with one final commentary--the man in a hanging-mob who holds his child's hand with the greatest of social responsibility...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Drole de Dame | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Drole de Dame is bizarre, and worth going to if you like to laugh at either the British or the French. There is Magoo...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Drole de Dame | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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