Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing, not even a pocket knife, and lived in the jungle for almost six months. Five or six big jaguars that I encountered looked at me curiously and then scampered off. They were well fed on deer and pigs, and apparently had no wish to taste a half-starved Frenchman. At first the snakes bothered me, but finally I became accustomed to them...
Evening editions of German papers brought the blow: Adolf Hitler had decreed that the term of conscripts in the German Army should be upped from one year to two, thus enlarging it from 600,000 to 800,000 at minimum estimate, and making every Frenchman gulp with alarm. It appeared to all European military experts that the German infantry machine was being put on a footing more powerful than the French for the first time since 1914. Amid the yelps of every Paris paper appeared such cold, professional judgments as this from General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer: "It is my opinion...
...which I have conducted on the historical aspects of the freedom of the press and which I am still conducting, I have often run across this quotation, attributed to Voltaire. As a matter of interesting fact, however, this sentence is not to be found in any of that great Frenchman's writings...
...shepherd named Abdul Ouab asked a French army captain in Algeria to think of some object in his Paris home. The soldier thought of a valuable family portrait. Instantly the picture appeared on the wall in Algeria; the stupefied Frenchman not only saw it but handled it. He cabled his parents in Paris. Back came the reply: "Portrait inexplicably stolen this morning. Police at work and Sûrete announces arrest of thief imminent...
Many a bourgeois Frenchman's fear that his new Government is far too chummy with Red Russia was voiced last week in the Chamber of Deputies when Deputy Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts...