Word: enfante
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When the little girl arrived at the hotel in Paris, the owner's wife said graciously: "Ah bonjour Mademoiselle. Es-tu un enfant terrible?" To which the little girl replied with her impressive grasp of the French idiom: "No merci Mme. Dupuis je suis Me ELOISE...
...less exhilarating. Using foreign words -jabbering in French, German, Russian, Yiddish, gibberish-he is fun the first five or six times. But using English words-though there are happy Coward glints and phrasings and intonations-he seems to be neither the hilarious mot juste expert nor the acid-throwing enfant terrible. There are false-tooth marks at best, and not too many of those...
Aneurin Bevan, the aging enfant terrible of the British Labor Party, erupted, as he does periodically, to bellow a complaint against the West's men of God. Cried Nye Bevan: "I solemnly say to the churches of mankind, to the leaders of religion here and in the United States, that they are guilty of blasphemy! They describe the Russians as a nation of God-haters, as a nation of atheists. Well, comrades, strip from your mind all the delusions you are fond of harboring ... It is from the God-haters that the proposal [to ban H-bombs] has come...
...longer an underfed, despairing Rat des Caves, Juliette has been married and divorced, has a two-year-old daughter, and last week was working on her fifth film (L'Homme et L'Enfant, with Eddie Constantine). She was planning a singing tour of South Africa, and had the prospect of a trip to Hollywood next winter to make a film with Danny Kaye. The wartime street days seemed far away. "They molded my life," she said, "but in my case, it's better not to look back...
This situation has been changing since the departure of Chicago's enfant terrible, and the Big Three have been cited as model examples of how to operate the revamped Chicago. Included in the Ivy planting at Chicago, says the New York Times, is a return to intercollegiate football on an independent basis...