Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Jean Frenchman and the foremost criminologists of France have followed for exactly a year (TIME, Jan. 18, Feb. 1, 1926) the astounding trial at Melun concerning a cult whose members revived at Bordeaux the sorceries of the Middle Ages and the flaggellant rites invented by the infamous "Marquis de Sade...
...great work, after the first year, for Leo Strakosch, clever artist, to return to Vienna disguised as a Frenchman, ignite the discontent of land-poor landlords, disseminate the idea that with the Jews happiness had been exiled, overthrow the Government, get the ban repealed, regain his Christian fiancée and be hailed by the populace and mayor of Vienna as "beloved...
...blood of this man was the Frenchman, the Indian and the Yankee-to be exact: 7/16 French, 1/16 Indian, 8/16 Yankee. Many years ago, when the 19th Century was an infant, a comely daughter came to White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe of Kansas. She was the great-grandmother of Senator Charles Curtis; she married a swashbuckling young Frenchman named Conville, who had hammered down his stakes near St. Louis. Their daughter married Louis Pappan, a French trader-from which wedlock sprang the mother of the Senator. Captain A.O. Curtis, his father, had come to Kansas from New Hampshire...
Frenchmen know that there are too many Anglo-Saxons in France. So many that aristocratic Parisians are obliged to withdraw for privacy to the left bank of the Seine. So many that a Frenchman simply cannot escape them on the Riviera. Recently rich Louis Loucheur, not long since Minister of Finance (TIME, Dec. 7), decided to provide an asylum for Frenchmen in France, a retreat where open English vowels and nasal Yankee twangs would not affront the Latin...
...Paris, last Week, one Gaston Goethe, redoubtable postcard peddling Alsace-Lorrainer, was jailed for assulting simultaneously a German who had called him a Frenchman and a Frenchman who had called him a German...