Word: faut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comment it faut comprendre Voltaire", Professor Allard. Sever Hall...
When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street...
...Hudson 2G.B., chairman and editor in chief. J. C. Erickson 2G.B., editorial chairman. L. A Carhart 2G.B. managing editor: R. B. Faut 2G.B., photographic editor: P. B. Stovin 2G.B. business manager...
...TIME. I find no pleasure in it. I also resent your spirit of the "wide-mouthed Southern Negro," since you do not know them as I do. Please find enclosed $.30, the price of the two copies and take my name from your mailing list and oblige. J. W. FAUT...
...taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their noses with their fingers, especially when in the street? a practise infinitely more common than refined...