Word: faut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Fèvre: "II faut alter sure le pre!" (We must settle this on the lawn...
...Time presses," he said. "Every day brings a loss of substance to the nation. Il faut en finir [Let's put an end to it]. Parliament must be dissolved . . . and elections held as soon as possible...
...rouge a levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher...
Last week, even the Supreme Court deserted the purists. Under a local law, the Monterrey firm of Guadelupe Gonzalez S.A. had been convicted of using the French phrase Modes comme il faut in its advertising. The court not only reversed this judgment but ordered the local authorities to let the firm alone henceforth. The Spanish language, said the court, had not been harmed, and besides, the firm had printed under the French phrase the Spanish words Modes como deben...
Cracked an indignant French diplomat in Washington: "Mon Dieu, que faut-il faire pour leur plaire? Se prostituer...