Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punitive expedition to the city. Then all the women, including Petal-of-the-Rose, were raped, thought that more lively than doing nothing all day long. Author Pettit writes suavely, ironically, often appositely, of philosophy, Christianity, "the facts of life," protects himself from censorship by his gymnastic euphemisms, Gallic urbanity...
TOPAZE-The education of a Gallic professor wittily illustrated by Frank Morgan...
...England such a case would not make Page 1 of the Times because that space is used for advertisements. In France the story would be so flavored with Gallic prosody in Le Temps that newsreaders would have difficulty in learning the who-what-where of the affair. In the U. S. the New York Times would publish dignified front-page headlines-and all the ghastly details. But in Mexico City, used though the people are to blood and violence, the biggest and best Mexican newspaper, El Excelsior, would omit the episode altogether...
...when he plays up to its full value the Hugo-Lincoln story. This attempt in no way succeeds in over-balancing the florid enthusiasm which runs through the pages like a great exotic weed, and is very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...
TOPAZE?Guffaws in the Gallic manner...