Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italians, of late, have spent much valuable time disputing with Frenchmen. Last week four incidents engaged the interest of newsgatherers, made for bitterness and retractions...
...Three Frenchmen crossed the Franco-Italian border. Italian border guards, speaking Italian, stopped them, asked for credentials. The Frenchmen, speaking French, presented them. The guards, leeming their words derogatory to the regime of Signor Benito Mussolini, arrested them; fined two, imprisoned...
France is an old-fashioned garden, defended to the Death by Frenchmen, whose chief aim is not progress but to enjoy what they deem attained perfection...
...guilty of professionalism and should be barred from amateur competition." France retained the Davis Cup because she has three aces, whereas the U.S. has only Tilden. Cochet and Lacoste took turns defeating John Hennessey; it was Hennessey's first appearance on Continental courts, and he gave the Frenchmen a lusty battle, but that was all. The critical match was the doubles: Tilden & Hunter v. Cochet & Borotra. The Frenchmen were not an efficient team; they bumped into each other and let several balls drop between them. Nonetheless, their individual brilliance conquered Ace Tilden and Hapless Hunter...
Next day, a handful of Frenchmen and several handfuls of U. S. tourists-500 in all-went out to the Roland Garros Stadium at Auteuil to watch the Italians and the U. S. younger ones play...