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...group of Frenchmen were about to spring full-armed from the sewers of Paris, seize the Chamber of Deputies and make use of the facsimile signatures of Cabinet ministers, such a monstrous plot was no laughing matter. The key to Last week's riddle in French popular psychology was, of course, that strong nerves and shrewdness are leading French characteristics. Jean Frenchman figured that if the Reds, Pinks and Pale-Pinks-i.e., the Communist, Socialist and Radical Socialist supporters of the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps-were content to let Justice and the police take their...
...Champion Allais, excepting the pure Christiania and the parallel Christiania. The French Ski Federation heartily concurred with its champion and, when his Le Ski Français was published last week at Bellegarde, a small town in France, the Federation promptly adopted it as the official method of teaching Frenchmen...
...worth of munitions and supplies was bought in the U. S. for France by one of gruff Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau's hard young men, M. Andrè Tardieu, who returned from Washington with thick-rimmed spectacles and a breezy pugnacity which made Frenchmen start calling him "Tardieu I'Américain"-no compliment intended. Last week at Lyon, in a witness box, M. Tardieu testified with what seemed to most Frenchmen like the brutality of an American gangster...
...Vajda story has Garrick invited to Paris to appear with the Comédie Française in 1750. Preceding him there flies the rumor that he is coming over to teach the Frenchmen how to act. The angered members of the French company prepare an extravagant hoax, take over an inn Garrick must stop at en route, man it with players from their troupe. Plan is to give Garrick an alarmingly warm welcome. Tipped off, Garrick and his man Tubby (E. E. Horton) affect serene indifference to the staged hubbub...
...first real dentists in this country were two Frenchmen who arrived during the Revolutionary War with Rochambeau's fleet. Before that, and long afterwards, barbers, blacksmiths and jewelers pulled the teeth and made the plates of the colonists. Those "tooth-drawers" traveled from house to house, farm to farm, town to town. In their packs they carried an assortment of human, calf and hippopotamus teeth...