Word: esteli
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...est mon Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
...parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
...years ago Patrick H. Joyce, burly, forthright president of Chicago Great Western, bought for his road a 20% inter est in Kansas City Southern. He bought it cheap from the hard-pressed Brothers Van Sweringen. The block of 104,500 shares, said President Joyce at the time, would give Great Western "part of the trackage we need for a direct route from the Northwest to the Gulf of Mexico." As to Kansas City Southern itself he added: "We will make a railroad out of it if we can get co-operation." Last week cash looked better than a railroad...
...est fou,' they whispered, and ordered more and more champagne...
...President of France one day last week was a little woman in a simple summer frock. Severely a Paris gendarme told her to move on. Obediently she moved. "Imbecile!" hissed a plain clothes agent of the Sûreté Generale at the startled gendarme. "C'est Madame Straus...