Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years (since 1920) M. Clemenceau pronounced no public utterance. When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Frenchmen dubbed him "The Father of Victory," and with that supreme laurel wreathing his brow he has felt it perhaps superfluous to emerge from well earned retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight...
...Then, with the first evidence of emotion which M. Clemenceau is known to have evinced since the moment of Victory, in 1918, he concluded somewhat brokenly: "Death is a magnificent purification of life. . . . Geffroy left behind him a good example for all Frenchmen: courage, labor, method and will power; lofty hopes which were not all realized. My last word here is: as long as we live, M. Geffroy has not died. Would that the same could be said...
...Brandy drinking Frenchwoman"-"the dissipated Frenchmen" vs. "the clean living American." You are brazen. Suzanne has a sharp tongue and personally I do not like her ways. However her whole career was at stake in meeting Helen−small wonder that the temperamental Frenchwoman required a stimulant for her nerves. I am convinced that the French stars could not have reached their heights had they dissipated nor be more at home at a cafe table. If so, our examples of fine American manhood are not so clever, for the French beat them with a great handicap...
...they applauded this unspectacular but well-advised move, Frenchmen remembered that Finance Minister Peret has served in various Ministries since that of Guerin in 1893. He served as President of the Chamber before the election of M. Herriot to that post. In consequence, he knows quite as well as anyone that in the present emergency the Finance Minister of France must attain his ends by cajoling the Deputies as if they were a pack of obstinate schoolboys...
...determination. Two to a team, they relieved one another periodically. There was Reggie McNamara, staunch veteran of uncountable races, pedaling warily, knowing that the road was a long one. Experienced Eddie Madden and Bobby Walthour, too. let the young up-and-comers snatch the first kudos. There were Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen and Jews, with names like Lacquehay, Georgetti, Goosens, Stockelynch, Keller, Kockler, Golle, Meithe, Bello, Wambst...