Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absence of trousers but too much of them shocked the dandies of those days. Now, with still a haunting memory of '92 when then length of one's trousers measured the length of his life, Frenchmen view the sartorial eccentricities of the Herriot government with apprehension. If it is accorded the fate of its liberal English contemporary it may know whereon to blame its fall. A black waistcoat at a formal reception! Morbleu...
General Tauflieb, Senateur for Alsace, imparted a few words of advice to his fellow countrymen. Le Senateur urged Frenchmen to remember three things about Americans when discussing the debt question...
...during the War, money was munitions. It was not more valuable than the lives given by 1,450,000 Frenchmen who died on the field and 300,000 who died of their wounds...
Krassin. In the station, several thousand Communists raucously greeted him. One Comrade Doriot proclaimed from the housetops: "Krassin has reached Paris; the revolution has begun." On every side, impressionistic Frenchmen shouted: "Vivent les Soviets...
Sadoul. But the greatest news of the day, for Frenchmen at least, was the arrest of Jacques Sadoul. Once the member of a French Mission to Russia, Captain Sadoul had become so enamoured of Bolshevism that he deserted to the Bolshevik ranks. In 1919, a Paris court martial condemned him to death in absense for treason...