Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away. He ate some lumps of sugar dipped in brandy. Once a wave swept him off into the darkness (he left Gris-Nez, France, at 8:27 P. M.) and he did not sight the smack again for 15 minutes. As he reached shallow water (at 7:30) two Frenchmen, capering with joy, rushed into the surf with all their clothes on. A woman thrust a white rose into his hand. He was going back, he said, to the bakery business...
Charles Evans Hughes: "I called on Premier Poincaré last week and emerged just as Secretary Mellon entered his antechamber. Mr. Mellon and I chatted for a moment and swopped friendly boasts about how each of us had recently taken a ten-mile walk to keep fit. Frenchmen who avoid walking whenever possible, were intrigued, the more so as my age is 64 and Mr. Mellon...
Before the national doubles tournament started last week in Brookline, Mass., most observers were ready to agree that the two best doubles players in the U. S. were probably a pair of Frenchmen. There was Henri ("Ricochet") Cochet and his excitable partner, Jacques Brugnon, champions of France and winners last June at Wimbledon. There was Jean René Lacoste and Jean Borotra, the "Bounding Basque." None of the U. S. players looked very strong; William T. Tilden, of course-but then Tilden never takes doubles literally. He prefers to play with some youth who, overcome at the honor of being...
...undermine the independence of France, or that somebody wants to buy France, approaches the absurd. . . . "This constant charge of injustice and usury on the part of the United States is simply not only unfounded in fact, but dishonest in purpose." In France, newspaper editorials shrieked, "Francophobe! Sadist!"* But even Frenchmen expressed preference for open antagonism to concealed indifference. At home, people watched Mr. Kellogg wait, recalled that there is nothing in the Constitution to keep Mr. Borah from occupying both his own Senatorial chair and the Secretary of State's seat. If the President would select for his Cabinet...
...provided with a special bar outside their meeting hall where viands and vintages of every sort were dispensed at prices far from high. M. Poincaré had not been extravagant in his preparations. He was about to ask the National Assembly to amend the Constitution -a grave step for Frenchmen, whose Constitution had sustained but two amendments since it was promulgated at Versailles in 1875. M. Poincaré would shortly demand that the internal debt of France be irrevocably guaranteed by making constitutional the recently passed legislation (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.) creating an autonomous sinking fund outside Parliamentary control...