Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs will consist of discussions in German, French, and Italian covering "the American business situation, data on American politics, and an account of the American point of view on some important problems of foreign affairs," according to Professor Cross...
Bible of all astrologers is the French prophet Nostradamus, who died in 1566, leaving behind him a book of cryptic verses supposedly predicting (among other great events) the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the revolt of Britain's American colonies. Nostradamus wrote: "The Chief of Fossan will have his throat cut. . . ." Said Columnist Walker's Astrologer: "Transpose fossan and you get OSSANF, the initials of Hitler's title, Oberster Sturm-Scharen-Anführer...
While repentant WMCA was still standing in the corner, NBC last week also had a transgression to worry over. It had broadcast word of the departure (also blazoned in the press) of the French liner "Champlain, and had sent the news out over international short-wave in several languages, including one which might be understood by any submariner now in business. At week's end the Champlain was reported to have reached an unrevealed haven, and NBC mightily relieved, resolved henceforth to keep such marine intelligence off the air entirely, regardless of how the press treated...
...preserve peace, Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel forbade war talk among its employes, who are chiefly French (in the kitchen), Italian (mixed with French in the dining room), German (in room service...
...early spring in the mountains, and high, snow-cowled hotels are full of happy skiers. In her big chalet the American-born Countess, swanlike, impoverished and tired, presides over her porcelain shepherdesses and her American, English and French girl boarders. In the evening the handsome, resolutely corseted General will come to dazzle the girls at dinner and spend the night secretly with the Countess...