Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frenchmen naturally received the Cahill Report, last week, with marked distaste. They do not like to appear too prosperous. Their Parliament has not yet ratified the Franco-U.S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926); and their statesmen like to repeat that France is too poor to pay. Also negotiations are about to begin for the purpose of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). France wishes her statesmen to attend these solely on the basis that there shall be no scaling down of the reparations owed by Germany to War-devastated and impoverished France...
...matter, my dear!" said "Papa" Joffre, "No matter-Frenchmen won the Battle of the Marne. It is enough that the French Army saved France. The individual part need not.be considered...
...Congai is reputed to contain a tragic significance. A half-French-half-native girl (Helen Menken) would rather be alone in the jungle with her native lover and their native child than have 100,000 Frenchmen at her feet. Circumstances, however, again and again prevent the fulfillment of her life wish and she ends up as the best congai of Indo-China-the congai of the French governor...
...reveals Colonel Lindbergh hearkening sympathetically to a beauteous young U. S. girl who passionately loves-a Frenchman. Unfortunately her U. S. father thinks that all Frenchmen are "lousy, dirty frogs" (Hisses from Audience...
...citizens of Paris have chuckled for years, if not centuries, at the classic story of three Frenchmen which concludes, "Ah, lucky Gaston...