Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak of the unusual lady who had the honor to play the French horn with the Budapest string ensemble, as "snub-nosed." (I like her picture, myself.) And you deal with the instrument. The "horn" (the forest horn as the Germans call it), famed for the nobility of its tone, used chiefly to give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister...
...within a few weeks I am leaving for France to take service in the French Foreign Legion on the Western Front I would deeply appreciate a prompt remittal. I certainly hope that TIME will reach the fire trenches "Somewhere in France." Is TIME on the "approved" list of French imported magazines? I sincerely hope...
...Monologuist Skinner speaks English, French, German, Italian, Russian, innumerable dialects, sign language...
...South African Line), which arrived last week in Boston from Capetown, told how, in mid-Atlantic near the Equator, they were surprised to see land planes flying about, many hundreds of miles from any land. Presently the watchers sighted a British aircraft carrier and a British cruiser, also a French cruiser. Challenger's passengers then realized they beheld part of the far-flung Allied hunt for Nazi sea raiders...
Beside all these casualties-bringing the week's total to 24 ships of 92,400 total tons sunk by Germany-Allied exploits sounded skimpy. The British Navy sank or captured four small German freighters, one off Ireland. The French Navy claimed to have sunk three U-boats, two by the old destroyer Siroco, one by the little (719-ton) survey ship Amiral Mouchez...