Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When one learns that no substitutions are allowed, and that no penalties are inflicted unless a player knocks his opponent completely unconscious, the sanguinary nature of French rugby is revealed. Theoretically, the game demands open running play, much like American soccer, but these devils of Frenchmen put their heads together with an "on no passe pas" war-cry, and fairly wade in gore. According to the newspapers the match was an "example of street fighting,"--something reserved in America for hockey games between the New Havens and the Victorias...
Although the time is not altered, all Frenchmen will be expected to go to work half an hour earlier and quit at 30 minutes before the normal hour. For example, a law-abiding Frenchman will get up at 7 o'clock instead of 7:30; arrive at his business at 8:30 instead of 9; lunch at 11:30 instead of 12; start his afternoon's work at 2:30 instead of 3; dine at 7:30 and not at 8; and go to bed half an hour before his accustomed time. Moreover all public services will conform...
...unknown to them. In the first place they were afraid of it. Colonne, then relatively unknown even in musical circles, educated the general public of Paris not only to an appreciation of the work of the old masters, but he also introduced to them the work of the young Frenchmen of their own time. The orchestra is at present being led by M. Gabriel Pierne...
...Many Frenchmen are opening their eyes in pained surprise at the Government's policy in the Ruhr. They argue that all cannot be well when the price of necessary commodities rises week by week, when industries are obliged to close for the want of coal. And they are beginning to worry about the cost of the venture...
Herr Gessler, Minister of Defense, made a speech to the Reichstag in which he said: " Will a nation of sixty millions remain impassive while our brothers in the Ruhr are being strangled by white and black Frenchmen? Our defence army of 100,000 may not accomplish much, but I have no doubt that a well-organized guerrilla war on our own soil would soon end with the enemy's destruction...