Word: frenchmen
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...starry-eyed newcomer named Frances Drake. It seems evident that our good censors do not object to a certain amount of sugared iniquity, providing it takes place in an apartment of the proper opulence, and also providing that apartment be situated in Parts. After all, with so many Frenchmen around, one must expect that sort of thing. Placed as foil to Grant's sophistication is the doddering Edward Everett Horton...
...Doumergue Government for "sacrificing the export trade of France to promote an impossible policy of agricultural protection." The Cabinet's failure to fulfill its pledge to reduce the cost of living and growing public distrust of the Government as the Stavisky scandal continues to stink, made many Frenchmen turn last week with pleasure if not with serious contemplation to the spirited campaign of young, untainted "Dauphin" Henri...
...Fils refused to pay the blackmail demands and the said publisher commenced his campaign in print. Due to War hysteria and the general desire to do anything to win the War, to say nothing of the Frenchman's morbid fear of such a terrible catastrophe as mass-impotence (some Frenchmen won't smoke American cigarets because they believe them to contain saltpetre), the movement caught the popular fancy and was militantly endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could...
Into these Labor Battalions onetime Laborer Adolf Hitler has put a good deal of heart. To suspicious Frenchmen they are troops drilling in flat violation of the Treaty of Versailles. To the Realmleader they are more. They are almost all that is left of the Socialism in his National Socialist creed which events have made steadily more Nationalist...
...they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany or turned over to France. For months Nazi agents from the Fatherland have been so active in the Saar that Frenchmen charge they have set up a "rival Government" at Saarbrücken...