Word: foche
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...Widmerpool, a figure of fun reappearing in this novel as the "new man" of modern Britain. In the course of the plot he is taught that marriage is not an exact science but, as Foch said of war, "a terrible and passionate drama." Widmerpool is a bouncing, uncivilized young City type whose political sagacity is expressed in his plan for averting World War II, then looming. The plan: give the Order of the Garter to Hermann Göring ("After all, it is what such things...
When is ex-Captain Truman going to reveal to us how he told Generals Foch and Pershing what to do in World...
...aide roared off into the Paris night, trying two old (and wrong) addresses before he finally found Gaillard's apartment house on the elegant Avenue Foch. The concierge was annoyed at being waked, totally unimpressed with the information that Gaillard was wanted by the President of the Republic. He summoned a policeman. The aide finally convinced them his business was urgent. Athletic, 37-year-old Felix Gaillard (TIME, Sept. 23), Minister of Finance in the outgoing government of 43-year-old Caretaker Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, hopped out of bed. shaved, dressed and rushed to Coty. Shortly...
...tennis, swimming and skiing, plays 15-handicap golf ("Maybe I'm good enough to play with President Eisenhower") and first-rate bridge. Much sought after by Parisian hostesses. Arrives late to work, leaves the office every night by 9 to dine with the family in his elegant Avenue Foch apartment. (Madame Gaillard, widow of one of France's wealthiest financiers, has two children by her previous marriage, a son by this one.) His chief handicaps: a malicious wit-"Nothing outside, nothing inside" was his verdict on a bald colleague-and the widespread feeling that he is a coldly...
...intellectual atmosphere of the Ecole Normale Superiere "seeps in like the scent in a deserted flower shop," Jean J. Seznec, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University, told a Lamont Forum Room audience in the final Thursday Afternoon Lecture...