Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted...
During several trips to Paris, the writer has been often annoyed, and frequently amused at what seems to be a favorite indoor sport of the French people. At meal times in the restaurants and hotels at table, it seems to be a universal custom for some Frenchman to blow a loud blast upon his nasal appendage (regularly called "bugle" in the United States...
...solved Kant, chuckled at Leibnitz and written an original thesis proving that Nietzsche was an obscurantist with disguised nympholeptic longings is to take up this course by way of easement. The reviewer sat among scholars from the start. The one on the left took notes in French and German. The two on the right giggled over puns in the original Greek. All of them smiled when hour exams were announced. It was a disturbing atmosphere, although here and there were scattered other strays like the reviewer who like him at once began to compute the possible costs of the tutoring...
...fourteenth-century French primitives. "The Adoration of the Magi" and "Death of the Virgin", have been placed on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum for a few weeks. These primitives are lent to the Museum by J. Pierpont Morgan...
...French Colonial Policy", Professor Usher Widener...