Word: frenchwoman
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...that the play is safely lodged in the independently operated Belasco, Trio does not invite condemnation. A serious study of a young girl pinioned by a dominating Frenchwoman she hates and at last set free by meeting a young man she comes to love, the play is largely psychological drama, a battle of wills rather than libidos. It has some interesting scenes, tense moments, grown-up talk. But it is unconvincing - contrived where it should seem inevitable, melodramatic where it should be intense. Indeed, were Trio a normal rather than abnormal triangle play, much of its tone and technique would...
This diplomatic spit & polish was the work of a tireless Frenchwoman, Mme. Simone Blanchard, who had been secretary at the Embassy when Ambassador Bullitt pulled out in 1941. She kept the place ready for instant reoccupancy...
Many reports of hosts of women snipers boiled down to two concrete cases. One was a 29-year-old Pole called Myra, who was reported to have lured soldiers into smiling range of her revolver. Another was identified as Audette Chraud, a Frenchwoman who potted Allied troops from her bedroom window. Villagers explained that she had been their leading collaborationist and a frequent entertainer of German officers. Both were taken to England, the Frenchwoman wounded...
...being a "rolypoly French wife": rolypoly I certainly am, due in part to the steady diet of oysters and champagne. This I cannot refute. But I definitely am not a Frenchwoman. I am a dyed-in-the-wool (and I do not mean Mr. Monteux's wool) Maineiac, and proud indeed of my old New England ancestry...
...have two Foreign News researchers who can tell you firsthand just what the Nazis are like. Louise Bronaugh worked eight years in Europe, was in Paris when the Germans took over. She lived three months under the swistika-finally escaped to Vichy with the help of an old Frenchwoman who led her along 16 miles of backwoods roads at night...