Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a few good-natured, accurately aimed Gallic pokes at Dictator Benito Mussolini's habit of forcing his Fascist Party chiefs to jump through burning hoops, hurdle bayonet rows and dive over tanks, bespectacled, stocky, 34-year-old French Minister of Education Jean Zay last week started up 15,782 foot Mt. Blanc. Early entrants for the stiff mountain climb had included Vice Premier Camille Chautemps and Minister of Public Works Ludovic Oscar Frossard (later resigned) (see above). M. Chautemps, however, wrenched an arm at tennis, dropped out. M. Frossard took a test climb, returned puffing, decided...
...Chamber's whole staff of functionaries will get comfortable offices under the sod. Special safety doors are planned to permit members of the underground Chamber, in case of dire emergency, to escape directly into Paris' immense sewers-a connection that will produce no end of Gallic witticisms...
...Paris, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's Three Centuries of American Art, most extensive U. S. show ever held in Europe (TIME, May 23), drew bigger crowds than any recent Paris exhibition, attentive critical scrutiny of some 200 paintings, 80 prints, 250 movie stills. Gallic critics spoke warmly but vaguely of the show's passionate interest, weaseled on criticism of individual artists, noted that in architecture the U. S. genius was best expressed...
...invention for recording secret thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about it, she used the machine on him, found him dreaming about a pretty student. With Gallic good sense they decided to let the machine alone, while promoters got hold of it, did a roaring business with jealous husbands, suspicious partners. Frenchmen stopped buying it first, said it was good only for Anglo-Saxons. But even Anglo-Saxons soon got tired of secret thoughts; and when politicians turned against...
...good idea, but a slight story, The Thought-Reading Machine combines Wellsian fantasy and well-buttered Gallic irony, makes a pleasantly mild addition to the literature of Let-Your-Mind-Alone...