Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montreal fans retaliated by attacking Campbell when he showed up to watch the next game, then surged out into downtown streets, breaking store windows and thumping bystanders to show their displeasure. Maurice insists he has calmed down ("I'm too old to fight"). But just last week his Gallic temper burst out, and he whacked Detroit Forward Norm Ullman with his stick, opened up a 7-in. gash on Ullman's forehead. Explained the Rocket: "Ullman speared me twice. He deserved...
...French, Britain seemed to be exhibiting far more "nervousness" than the Berlin crisis warranted. "The worst thing in the world," said one French official in tones of Gallic superiority, "would be to become alarmist and lose one's sangfroid." As for West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he regarded the British approach as downright dangerous. "Eliminate the Berlin threat," growled Adenauer, in one private session, his cold-hoarsened voice trembling with anger. "Wipe it out entirely. Then I will talk about something else...
...Plume de Ma Tante. A mad, charming, Gallic revue that uses bad English when it has to, but more often the international language of leers and leaps, pratfalls and double takes...
...Plume de Ma Tante. A mad, charming, Gallic revue that uses bad English when it has to, but more often the international language of leers and leaps, pratfalls and double takes...
...Boulle (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is too blasé to join forces openly with embittered Briton Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, but he makes it plain in his book that there is no place for naive, warmhearted U.S. do-gooders in cold-war country. True to his Gallic instincts, he makes his American boob a woman. Patricia is the wife of a Frenchman who expertly runs a rubber plantation in Malaya, not far from Singapore. He married her during a leave in the U.S. and loves her dearly, but while he sensibly oversees operations with a machine...