Word: faits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is one conception that we would like to deflate before we up stakes over the interlude, a conception voiced by De Musset to the effect that "tout aux tavernes est au fait." Broadly, the phrase suggests that anything goes at a public house, or colloquially, an hotel...
...bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...recent prowess in venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems Maugham was carrying, seized it and read a favorite. "And as he read his voice broke and tears came into his eyes and ran down his face. 'Ah,' he said, 'ça me fait pleurer comme un veau.' ('Ah, that makes me cry like a calf...
...America disliked the Chamberlain method because it had the appearance of England and France presenting her with a fait accompli. When the present conference opened, exactly the same suspicion oppressed France. The result has been quite fatal. The conference has been a tragedy of mismanagement...
When the Cherry Sisters came to town, 30 years ago, loud was the rejoicing in poolrooms. The Cherry Sisters were blowsy, humorless young actresses who sang sentimental ballads completely off key, in dead earnestness. They appeared behind a serviceable net that covered the stage, and it was entirely au fait for the audience to hurl apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, other ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column...