Word: frenchmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse: 40 million Frenchmen have read, with relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...
...chief organizer of the show was multimillionaire Art Dealer Georges Wildenstein, who has galleries in Manhattan, Paris, London and Buenos Aires. He rounded up the American contributions and helped persuade the French government to cooperate in celebrating a bargain that Frenchmen can only regard...
...more & more Frenchmen are beginning to realize, the time when they must choose is not many weeks off. Their decision has been delayed for two years already. By early 1954 they will have to decide...
...nationalization of the French railroads, coal mines, electrical industry and other such giants was an old story. But many Frenchmen were surprised at some other government activities. The book showed that the government manages music halls, theater-ticket agencies, a drugstore, a vineyard. It is the nation's biggest ship owner, banker, printer and publisher, sells most of France's phonograph records, runs most of the gambling houses. In all, by unofficial estimate, the government owns outright 167 companies, has an interest in 67 others. And it loses on some of them. On the railroads alone, the government...
...sound British critic has called 28-year-old Roger Nimier "one of the most brilliant writers in France," but there must be a lot of shocked Frenchmen who wish he had never learned to write. At 20, in 1945, Nimier joined the French 2nd Hussar Regiment and wound up in Germany at war's end. Five years later, in The Blue Hussar, he described French troops in action and occupation with a bite and candor that made most U.S. war novelists seem like self-pitying recruits. Now, even in a tasteless and jazzed-up translation, it is a novel...