Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League disputes. Neutral observers doubted that it would be published. The document does exist. It is extremely detailed, but France cannot publish its full text without giving German authorities important tips on the how & who of France's military espionage. True in the main, there are also enough Gallic exaggerations and inaccuracies in it to help Germany deny it in toto...
...France, since Visigoths vanished into the sixth century donjons of Clovis, a French suspect was looked on as guilty until proved innocent. Hence, by neat Gallic logic, he must be locked up until the state gets around to trying him. Last week French criminal procedure was quietly revolutionized with a new law providing that henceforth all arrested suspects must be provisionally released within five days unless 1) convicted, 2) proved vagrants, or 3) accused of a crime punishable by a term of more than two years. Appalled were police, prosecutors and feudal-minded deputies of the Right; jubilant...
First concerts in St. Louis and Indianapolis last week were more in tune with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's unworried beginning. In St. Louis the sleek, gallic ways of Conductor Vladimir Golschmann have proved so popular that the orchestra was able to balance its budget this autumn by boosting ticket-prices. In Indianapolis the orchestra which Ferdinand Schaefer started with unemployed musicians on a co-operative basis (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930), is actually thriving...
Because Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Lithuanians, Poles, Danes, Armenians, Serbians, Greeks, Estonians, Syrians, Letts, Icelanders, Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands...
...from the rafters, drains them of blood, but not before one of them has annoyed the heroine by locking her in the spider's closet. The prison warden (Frank Shannon) points a suspicious finger at first one person, then another. The Japanese butler makes bright remarks in a Gallic accent. The swamp lad's father is buried in offstage quicksands, thereby purifying the Hollins blood...