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That case would leave out Mexico's astonishing reaction to news that barely made a stir in the U.S. During the long negotiations Mexicans were saying cynically: "Están haciendose la barba" (They are rubbing each other's cheeks...
...sermons, his descriptions of collapsing France may well be the most exciting parts of his book. Van Paassen wandered in wartime Paris like a man in a city of tombs. He watched the mobile guards leave for the front: "Not a smile . . . not once a cheer." "C'est bien morne," said van Paassen aloud. "Non, monsieur" a Frenchman corrected him, "it is sinister...
Nevertheless, he managed to outlive by four years the friar who was to have succeeded him. Father Joseph's death snatched Richelieu away from the theater. "Ou est mon appui?" cried Richelieu, "j'ai perdu mon appui...
...assure you that George is very much a part of the ensemble. . . . George does not play "Chicago Style"-or anything like it! He plays one of the roughest, guttiest, wide-open-est sliphorns to which it has been my pleasure to listen, and his style is distinctly New Orleans, if we must stylize music. . . . It is probably apocryphal, but I have heard that George can lie flat on his back on the floor, permit a man to stand on his stomach, and then will play Tiger Rag on his trombone with his feet...
...est la Guerre