Word: frenchmen
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...Five Frenchmen are here, and Belgium and Turkey, with four apicce, are tied in fifth position. In addition there are three Mexicaus, three gcots, three Indians, three Greeks, two Cubans, two Italians, two from Canto Domiage, and one each from Austyia, Hungary, Ive-land, Japan, Norway, Poland, Puexto Bice, Switzerland, Russia, Spain, and Lithuauia, in all a total...
Italians, Frenchmen, Germans, Americans and other foreigners?but not His Majesty's subjects in the United Kingdom ?daily received news that John Bull in the person of Squire Baldwin was hurling into the Mediterranean last week the most colossal and unprecedented array of war boats in modern times, denuding the British Isles themselves of virtually all sea defense...
...State Railway. As the Pilsudski steamed in, by far the largest liner ever to fly Poland's flag, proud Poles who had arrived by excursion trains from all over the new Republic cheered themselves hoarse, felt that surge of national elation Germans got from the Bremen, Frenchmen from the Normandie...
...Rogers III, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil, servants heard a shot one evening, ran upstairs to Mr. Rogers' bedroom. Lying on the floor with a bullet hole in her temple, a pearl-handled revolver at her feet, was Evelyn Hoey, honey-blonde torchsinger (Fifty Million Frenchmen). When police arrived they found Actress Hoey dead, Host Rogers stumbling drunkenly about the front lawn muttering about his "sweetheart." Told that Rogers & Hoey had spent the day in alcoholic bickering, police clapped Host Rogers and a male house guest in jail. Day later, believing the death suicide, they released...
...their X, Y, Z home stretch, the Academy's 40 Immortals also adopted "Yacht," the last of a long line of English sporting terms which Frenchmen have been twisting on their tongues since they took up le sport. At one ponderous session the academicians considered "Yankee," pronounced it with aversion, decided officially that "Yankee" is a word having no rightful place in French...