Word: frenchwomen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when I proposed building the public baths along the Strandway, I was greeted with a chorus of recriminations from the opposition party. They had a terrifying vision: hundreds of the poor would now be able to take baths regularly! For their part, they want our poor to be like Frenchwomen. A Frenchwoman, as you know, takes a bath but twice in her life: once when she enters it, and once when she leaves it. In between times she uses talcum powder. It's a well-known fact that the Republicans have a vested interest in the talcum powder industry...
Diane (M-G-M). Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) was one of the greatest of Frenchwomen. "She animated a century," says a French biographer. "She created a style." A woman of rare beauty, she was the mistress of a king (Henry II) 20 years her junior, and held his love until he died. In a day when woman's place was in the home, she ruled France well and wisely for more than a decade (1547-59). A patroness of the arts, she was the muse of Jean Goujon, whose finest statue is a portrait of Diane as Diana...
...French at the Sorbonne and European politics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Afterwards he did welfare work and freelance writing before he joined TIME'S Paris Bureau in 1951. A U.S. expatriate who loves France, Karnow listened, week after week, as young Frenchmen and Frenchwomen indicted not only their elders but their ancestors...
France's famed Roman Catholic novelist, Francois Mauriac, said the book was clearly written by the devil, and that did not harm its sales. He might have said the same of many other Frenchwomen's novels, notably 32-year-old Danielle Hunebelle's Philippine. The pretty young thing of 20 who tells the story manages to seduce a man of more than 50 after failing with his wife. "Had anyone objected," the heroine declares, that loving "leads to hell, I would have replied that one wins one's soul in losing...
...recent decades, the heaviest concentration of girls has been in the shadowy, shuttered Barrio Coloón, in the heart of the city. A quarter-century ago, one Minister of the Interior tried to clean up the district; he rounded up the hundreds of Frenchwomen who then monopolized the Barrio Coloón and shipped them back to Europe. The only practical result was that a horde of grateful native operators moved in. Last week another Minister of the Interior, husky Lomberto Díaz, 40, was getting better results...