Word: gallicisms
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...certain blithe members of the class of 1938; that is, until a few days ago. The congenial young men sat himself down at the table in question one day this week, but he know it not as it really was. His entrance caused a momentary hesitation in the smooth Gallic flow of conversation and food, but soon the gentleman on his right asked him what his name was, in French. Considerably surprised, the young man parried with a brilliant, "Oh, Yeah" and turning to the man on his left he queried, "Do you speak Canuck, too?" Professor Morize just gave...
Boyer enthusiasts have failed to analyze her charm. The voice is cool, remote, essentially Gallic. But a bewitching personal note persists whether she sings of love or hate, boredom or jealousy. Each song has a finely chiseled pattern, an unmistakable mood built from a variety of inflections. Like Helen Morgan she likes to sit on the piano, flutter her hands. But she is as likely to pace the stage, act out each phrase. Like Libby Holman she can get her voice down to a guttural bass. But for finesse this Parisienne, now in her early...
...time in a generation to appreciate the layman's point of view as governments fell, week after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative and political machine of France, to rid it of blocs, to break with deep-rooted traditions, is likely to be disappointed...
...name of her South Africa, took the chair while the delegation orators occupied the rostrum. The gathered company was nonplussed when the first speaker, Yale's and France's Pierre Bori, delivered a stylistically brilliant address in his native tongue, propounding classic bromides about civilization, liberte, securite, and Gallic defense "contre les hordes sauvages." Another native language speaker on the program was the gentleman from Greece, whose lucubration occupied a quarter of an hour, and absorbed as much more time for translation. Star of the undergraduates was Malcolm Hoffman '34, no mean successor to Edwin L. Popper '31, who once...
...befits France's most successful living writer and foremost Anglophile, André Maurois moves with dignity and tact through this Edwardian picture gallery. Sobered by his position and his responsibilities as a guide, Author Maurois is careful not to indulge his Gallic lightness but he does occasionally point a faintly ironic anecdote. As he passes from portrait to portrait, only one is able to draw phrases of condemnation from his respectfully admiring lips. All good Edwardians will applaud his taste. Author Maurois gives it as his considered opinion that Edward VII was a gentleman, Wilhelm II a bounder...