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Word: ests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dieu, why should I? C'est la guerre politique! I am not going to be driven out like that. In my long life I have wanted to rest from the cares of state so many times that I have exhausted all possible means of abandoning power. The hour demands that I hold on! Je fais la guerre politique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand's Week | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...like a mad bulldog-walrus-tiger all rolled into one! Strangely enough, his pessimistic worldly philosophy caused him to deny explicitly on one occasion that God inspired the almost religious Crusade which he made out of the War. He gave the credit to the Spirit of France: "Ce n'est pas Dieu, c'est la France qui le veut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tiger, Tiger! | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

Also, on p. 16 of the same issue you head an article about Henri de Jouvenel, Henry est Arrive. Could any mixture of French and English schoolboy jargon be more ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...short, in connection with the World Court as with the League, God give us the wisdom to act in such a manner that the famous question of Moliere need never be asked of the United States: "Pourquoi est-il alle dans cette galere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIBBONS WARNS AGAINST PRECIPITATION IN JOINING INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE | 11/19/1925 | See Source »

Sailing on the Paris, M. Caillaux was intercepted and honored by a British squadron off Plymouth. In the early dawn his terrified fellow passengers: rushed scantily clad upon deck. "Est-ce encore la guerre?" they demanded, wild-eyed. It was M. Caillaux receiving a thundering British salute of 21 guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Comes Caillaux | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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