Word: faut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi aggression. . . . There can be no peace until the menace of Hitlerism has been finally removed." The Prime Minister's voice rose only once, when he spoke the ally's language, perhaps echoing something he had heard over there. It was the Allies' first slogan: "Il faut en finir"-it must be ended...
Abruptly he awoke. His hand was stiff and numbed; he shook it. He pulled up the clothes so they were straight and faut...
...today, these famished Englishmen demanded something a little extra with each meal. Such things as white peacocks served with their feathers still remaining "to make them look alive" or rabbits adorned with corral beads upon their feet and silver bells hung from their necks were really considered "comme il faut" by the Emily Posts of that...
...those who hold that matters of this sort are not worthy to be discussed in the columns of a newspaper--still faut laver son linge sale en famille." Francis Bigelow Moore...
Fourteen Chinese had been arrested for the murder of a French planter. Six were sentenced by a French court to Death. Anxious that the execution should be comme il faut, reflecting that the condemned men were Orientals, the French Court sent for an Oriental headsman, obtained after some difficulty a scowling Japanese adept with his great broad blade...