Word: gallicisms
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Homer has told us of the expedition against Troy, Xenophon has given us the tale of the Ten Thousand, and Caesar has recounted his Gallic conquests. All these worthy narratives have had their interest to Harvard students, even though this interest was centered somewhat more on what the writer's words meant than on what they were talking about. The latest contribution to literature which will find its place in the historical archives is the story of the invasion of the West by the Harvard University Football Team of 1919, written by one who followed the team to the Golden...
...should be as intelligible to him as Hottentot to an Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also are of the appreciative and selected cultured...
Inasmuch as the Cerole Francais in conclave assembled has with characteristic boldness decided to continue the ancient tradition by which its members are wont at this season to pit their prowess against that of the associated Teutons, it does now publicly hurl a gallic challenge to its friendly foes of the Deutscher Verein, inviting them to meet the as-yet-unconquered Cercle team anywhere and any day. It does, moreover, with excessive magnanimity not only offer to provide half of the liquid enticement customarily placed at first base, but also agrees to its being of entirely germanic nature. Wherefore...
...most exacting critics have recognized in him qualities of sobriety, strength and clearness which form the genuine French splrit, and which are the characteristics of classical works. But in addition to this, one finds in Maupassant a particular disposition to conceive life which is not only French, but also Gallic. For this reason Maupassant is is not generally appreciated as much out of France, as where the Gallic race is predominant...
...most of a thankless and difficult part; and Miss Harrington and Mr. Anderson played the colorless sister and brother-in-law with excellent taste. But, on the whole, the cast failed in only one task, which is a very difficult one for Anglo-Saxons; they did not preserve the Gallic quality of the characters they represented. Mr. Blair gave to Robert Fergan a truly Anglo-Saxon touch of blunt brutality, and Miss Kahn typified the American rather than the French wife's conception of liberty in the marriage relation. On the other hand, Mr. Anderson succeeded admirably in keeping...