Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French army is kept democratic by the invariable practice of allowing only one-half its active officers to be taken from Saint-Cyr and the Polytechnique, Gallic West Points. The result has been a businesslike class of fine professional officers. With a hierarchy of officers whose continuity of tradition has not been broken since the 1870s, the French are probably weak on new tactics. They are scholars in warfare. It is typical that able Chief of Staff Gamelin, even-tempered Parisian who studied under Foch at the Staff College, is so close a student of Napoleon's campaigns that...
...French President has ever completed a second-seven-year term. The only one who has ever tried served two years. Last week President Lebrun indicated that he would stay in office only so long as the present international crisis lasts. Gallic wits predicted that in that case he would have to serve his full term...
...producers supposed. Once the side-splitting spectacle of doors opening without apparent human aid has lost its novelty, the picture's only surprises are occasional droll antics by Actors Young and Burke, and a few scraps of bright dialogue. Best line: Mrs. Topper's comment on Gallic manners: "Too bad the people in America aren't French...
...work fast and smoothly. M. Friedland's most cherished souvenir of U. S. culture, which he says he will show to every one in France, is a folder of matches from a New York hotel. The matches are fully-dressed cardboard maidens. Of them M. Friedland says with Gallic awe (his assistant's translation) : "America, it is wonderful. Here it is only needed to rub the young lady in order to make the fire...
Avocate d' Amour (Raoul Ploquin). Last French picture made by Danielle Darrieux, exhibiting moderately amusing Gallic aspects of the problem of marriage v. career...