Word: frenchman
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...plot deals with his futile attempts to do what in legal terms is known as consummating the marriage. This sounds intriguing, but the trouble is he never succeeds; and the picture ends just as his son is about to succeed for him. Danielle Darrieux may be the Frenchman's conception of what it's worth flunking out of college to see, but in America she doesn't justify a D in History...
...Italian Riviera to meet Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who undoubtedly would remind the Spaniards of all the favors Italy did for Franco's Spain when Italy seemed bigger potatoes. As Vichy denied Marshal Petain would join the conference, the Frenchman started for a "few days' rest" at his wife's villa, a short drive from the Italo-Spanish rendezvous...
...fantasies which unfolded in Africa last week, the most dramatic was described over the radio by General Georges Catroux, former Governor General of French Indo-China, now right-hand man to Free Frenchman Charles de Gaulle...
...months when Germany was preparing for the all-out assault against France her most effective propaganda slogan was: "England will fight to the last Frenchman." By dinning it into French ears day after day, week after week, German propagandists of the radio and the press planted suspicions which helped poison France's power to resist. Last week the propaganda machine of the Berlin-Rome Axis altered two proper nouns, tried out the old slogan again against the U. S. and Britain...
...Yves Tinayre Recital (Baritone Yves Tinayre, with the Dvonch string ensemble; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Frenchman Tinayre, an eminent musicologist, makes troubadour songs and church airs a glowing tapestry...