Word: frenchmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi (successor to the great Count Volpi who has been "rotated") countenanced release of the following comparative statistics: "Whereas U. S. citizens are taxed 13.3 per cent of their earnings. Englishmen 27.3 per cent and Frenchmen 29.2 per cent, the Italian people are taxed 38.1 of their earnings?or almost three times as much as U. S. citizens...
...news syndicate: "I hope to see the [national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory over the French...
Italians, of late, have spent much valuable time disputing with Frenchmen. Last week four incidents engaged the interest of newsgatherers, made for bitterness and retractions...
...Three Frenchmen crossed the Franco-Italian border. Italian border guards, speaking Italian, stopped them, asked for credentials. The Frenchmen, speaking French, presented them. The guards, leeming their words derogatory to the regime of Signor Benito Mussolini, arrested them; fined two, imprisoned...
France is an old-fashioned garden, defended to the Death by Frenchmen, whose chief aim is not progress but to enjoy what they deem attained perfection...