Word: frances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beans & Whiskers. M. Schuman said he wanted a showdown; that he would push for "unconditional capitulation." The Cocos were already cringing. They asked a 1,500-franc payment for each striking worker to tide him over the Dec. 1 payday. Schuman refused...
Turning from France's political crisis, Paris' Franc Tireur wrote gravely: "It was a happy day for those wise individuals who, in this epoch, still take the time to breathe and know how to combine with grace the futile and the agreeable...
Thanks to the cooperation of the governments concerned, means have Ween found to overcome many of our foreign exchange problems. Until last spring, for instance, Italians could buy TIME on the basis of the French franc (i.e., Italian subscribers and newsstand buyers paid for TIME in lira, which were exchanged for francs and remitted to our Paris office). This worked well until the Italian Government, by importing more from France than it exported, ran out of francs and TIME could no longer clear its Italian lira remittances. At that juncture the Government, expressing its desire to continue having TIME & LIFE...
...disappointed. Louis must have been in wonderful physical condition. Though his tone had already thinned down, and his improvisations would sometimes degenerate into redundant lip exercises, his playing had a certain, since lost brilliance, and if like later virtuosos he prostituted his art as a concession to the franc, still it remained a rather original kind of prostitution...
...schemes to leave his money to an illegitimate son in return for the love denied him by his family. When the son conspires against him, the old man discovers that love cannot be bought, then gives the money to his greedy legitimate children as a sort of franc-for-franc payment of their grudging affection. In giving up his wealth he experiences an insight into godly love, but apparently too late for him to be saved on earth...