Word: gallicisms
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...suggestive of contagious possibilities. And with minor exceptions, those conditions are duplicated today. In such a pacifistic atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened its process of covering the northern border with a maze of barbed-wire, and Russian wondered whether she would be squeezed between the two outlaws, Germany and Japan...
...most outspoken, the most reckless, the most generous, and the most neglected" figure of his day. In this authoritative but racily written biography Author Faÿ takes the lid off a period of U. S. history that has long been simmering in academic ovens, dishes it up with spicy Gallic sauce...
...wholly a matter of mise-en-scene and photography. In the delightful zoo where a humorous elephant squirts a trunkful of water over a handsomely malignant tiger, and serene swans float by in the twilight, the influence of Rene Clair's romantic humor is paramount. If the Gallic touch cannot long survive translation to Hollywood at any rate it is charmingly present in this temperate fantasy...
...League disputes. Neutral observers doubted that it would be published. The document does exist. It is extremely detailed, but France cannot publish its full text without giving German authorities important tips on the how & who of France's military espionage. True in the main, there are also enough Gallic exaggerations and inaccuracies in it to help Germany deny it in toto...
...France, since Visigoths vanished into the sixth century donjons of Clovis, a French suspect was looked on as guilty until proved innocent. Hence, by neat Gallic logic, he must be locked up until the state gets around to trying him. Last week French criminal procedure was quietly revolutionized with a new law providing that henceforth all arrested suspects must be provisionally released within five days unless 1) convicted, 2) proved vagrants, or 3) accused of a crime punishable by a term of more than two years. Appalled were police, prosecutors and feudal-minded deputies of the Right; jubilant...