Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russians we want to enter Berlin," explained Lord Fisher, "not the French or English." But even though the Russians were then on Britain's side, even though enemy airplanes then offered small hazard, Lord Fisher's plan never got to first base. Bitterly he observed: "The unparalleled Armada of 612 vessels constructed to carry out this decisive act in the decisive theatre of war was diverted and perverted to the damned Dardanelles...
Radio Luxembourg, whose transmitter in the little grand duchy is within sight of the German border, subsided at the outbreak of the war, has not been heard since. Radio Normandie, like all other French stations, has been put under military supervision, now devotes most of its time to propaganda, none to merchandising. To supply both stations with sponsors and commercial material, U. S. agencies like J. Walter Thompson, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, and Erwin, Wasey have for the last several years been doing brisk London businesses...
...soon they were back at digging Chamberlain in the ribs and blasting England's slowpoke policy on the Western Front. Said a "communiqué": "It is officially stated that British troops have arrived in France and have agreed to fight on the same side as the French. A formula is being prepared." Began a song...
...both foreigners and U. S. travelers had only Hobson's choice of liners, no certain sailing dates. Stalled were Poland's Gdynia-America Line, Hapag-Lloyd. Britain and France maintained no dependable schedule. Passengers were warmly urged to try neutral lines. If they were insistent on a French or British ship, booking clerks politely jotted down preferential boats and sailings, but few hours before departure many a sailing might be suspended for from two weeks to kingdom-come. Italian liners, after hugging home ports since the outbreak of war, took to the sea again on schedule, but avoided...
...pain in his arm diminished for several days. His doctor passed the remarkable news on to his colleagues and soon the Pasteur Institute in Paris began work on the use of animal poisons for relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford of Brookline, Mass. issued a set of standard directions on the everyday use of cobra venom...