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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephants Never Forget | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Frog-Blooded Execution | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Comment it faut comprendre Voltaire", Professor Allard. Sever Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wu's Coup de Corde | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/6/1928 | See Source »

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