Word: gallicisms
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...England such a case would not make Page 1 of the Times because that space is used for advertisements. In France the story would be so flavored with Gallic prosody in Le Temps that newsreaders would have difficulty in learning the who-what-where of the affair. In the U. S. the New York Times would publish dignified front-page headlines-and all the ghastly details. But in Mexico City, used though the people are to blood and violence, the biggest and best Mexican newspaper, El Excelsior, would omit the episode altogether...
...when he plays up to its full value the Hugo-Lincoln story. This attempt in no way succeeds in over-balancing the florid enthusiasm which runs through the pages like a great exotic weed, and is very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...
TOPAZE?Guffaws in the Gallic manner...
Topaze is a graceful and ever so Gallic play about graft in which the characters bear such names as Castel-Benac, Tronche-Bobine and Pitart-Vignolles, and act accordingly. It is the wistful, pathetic, ludicrous history of M. Topaze, a sad-eyed French schoolmaster with a beard, who was ousted from his classroom because he persisted in telling a wealthy parent the truth about her repulsive and boobish child. Not that M. Topaze objected to offering flattery-he was merely too simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which...
...their honeymoon in its original vicinity near Vichy, France. The man becomes practically convinced that reunion is desirable. The woman feels sure it is not. Their differences are settled when she is killed in the collapse of a hotel elevator. This florid metal grill contrivance, in the best open Gallic style, is the most interesting element, architectural or personal, in the play...