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Word: flunkeys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down Flandin. When Deputies straggled back to their desks, they found a flunkey struggling up to the tribune with a heavy pedestal, its top padded with red plush. A few minutes later Pierre Etienne Flandin walked slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Change at Crisis | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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