Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that was caustic, suspicious and envious in the French character welled up. People hated the ubiquitous black marketeers, sneered at their nouveau riche manners. They railed against the Government. The gay, graceful days of Gallic joie de vivre seemed a thing of the past. A kind of national dissatisfaction gripped the French: thousands were talking of leaving for some happier land, and many actually applied for visas. In their physical misery and moral confusion Frenchmen no longer spoke of "la belle France"; now it was "pauvre France...
...French Empire shrank slightly last week. With Gallic grace, France agreed to step out of Syria and the Lebanon-and the Near East. Thus an imperial association which lasted for a generation came, at least temporarily, to a close...
...aides cornered the dwindling London rice stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling Turkish coffee he consumed. He rode majestically through London's streets in a Rolls-Royce provided by the British Government. Finally, again by air, he had flown off to Paris and a royal Gallic welcome. Then, tired and rather wan, he had once more stepped into a plane and returned to Athens and his troubled people...
French Academician Andre Siegfried, author, economist and world traveler, after 50 years of reading U.S. newspapers, paid them a Gallic compliment. The U.S. press, said he, "has reached maturity but without having lost its youth. Especially it has preserved its real genius, which is that of a reporter. It is interested in everything...
Trier was founded, as Augusta Treverorum, in 14 B.C. by the Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...