Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frenchmen in the eyes with Corre's "American-style journalism." He was among the first to import American tricks: crack rewrite-men sharpen his news, splashy pictures-occasionally nudes-and sassy headlines decorate it, personality angles and impious gibes at national heroes help sell it. And a racy Gallic sauce-far hotter than anything U.S. tabloids dare dish out-flavors it. For balance-or to confuse the reader-Corre has printed Steinbeck on Russia, and serialized such books as Mr. Adam...
Topaze (adapted from the French of Marcel Pagnol by Benn W. Levy; produced by Yolanda Mero-Irion & the New Opera Company) triumphed on Broadway just 18 years ago. Returning last week, it looked like a genuine theatrical relic. It still had traces of gay cynicism, Gallic sprightliness and wit. But it wheezed, wobbled, and seemed all the sadder for trying to look jaunty...
France has turned fearful eyes to the north in recent months and watched German heavy industry--the life-blood of the Wehrmacht--blossom under careful tending of new American policy. But France's worries are not all founded in emotion, for sound Gallic sense recognizes the need for 19 million tons of coal this year while only 5 million tons are available. German heavy industry not only holds fears for the Frenchman in remembrance of things past, but also is the smelting furnace consuming the coal and coke needed for French recovery...
...principals who live there are not plausible enough to deserve the privilege. Once in a while Greer Garson demonstrates that a good actress is jailed inside all the suffocating wax that the studio has molded around her. Newcomer Richard Hart makes a cagey, personable deceiver. Robert Mitchum tries a Gallic gesture now & then but most of the time he just looks sleepy. No audience will blame him much for that...
Doubts of le Peré Noël. Gallic skepticism had not gone to sleep. Henri Clery, 48, who rents boats on the Seine at the St. Cloud bridge, scratched his unshaven chin. "It seems too good to be true," he said. "But does Mr. Marshall really speak for all Americans? You know, I stopped believing in le peré Noël a long time...