Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even express their preferences publicly; may not march in parades (blow horns, beat drums); may not write articles on politics; may not distribute literature or buttons; may not bet on elections; may attend conventions but not participate; may not allow their husbands or wives to "front" for them...
French department stores reported Christmas sales about 40% below last year. They were doing a thriving trade, however, in everything wearable, drinkable or eatable that devoted French women thought their men at the front might like. L'Amour is important to morale, and the State made it possible last week for tens of thousands of women to visit their husbands at Christmas. Mothers with evacuated children in the countryside were offered by the French State Railways free trips during the holidays to visit their moppets...
This amounted to confirmation that the much-touted "Military Alliance" was simply a false front by which Herr Ribbentrop hoped to scare the British and French into making further concessions a la Munich...
...nerves. Last week dispatches to the U. S. were again full of ominous signs: unusually large forces had been spotted across the Moselle from Luxembourg; a cold snap had frozen flooded areas in The Netherlands, making a mechanized offensive possible; Germans attacked three French outposts on the Rhine-Moselle front between the Warndt Forest and the Saar River, captured ten prisoners...
Moving of the British into the front lines was good news for many French soldiers, who muttered that the English would now earn their pay. Although the British nave made much of the fraternizing of the two Armies (one journalist said he gained the impression of "something that was nothing less than brotherliness between the French and English soldiers"), reports from the French Army have been different. One French soldier, on leave in Paris, told of numerous fist fights, not only between individuals but between groups of French and English. Chief gripe of the French is that the English...