Word: gallard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. The vacant chair beside the banker at the baccarat table in the sporting club at Monte Carlo is reserved for M. Gallard of Paris who, arriving late, proceeds to break the bank, taking home his winnings in a suitcase which he has brought for the purpose. What follows is an adventure story designed to fit Ronald Colman's elegant, off-hand romanticism. Will he go back to the tables? Hunchbacks, horseshoes and other lucky symbols strewn in his path by the backers of the sporting club fail to lure him. On the Blue...
...Spoke M. Gallard, prefect of the Cote d'Or, witheringly: "No animal is game that one does not hunt for sport with a weapon. Does one need a gun for snails? Does one perhaps require horses and a pack of hounds? Does one sound a horn? But no! One simply pulls him off a wall with the fingers. That, messieurs, is not sport...
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