Word: gallicly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Face, by Marcel Ayme. One of the best of Gallic ironists tells what happens when a solemn, rather dutiful Frenchman gets a handsome new face (TIME, April...
...Second Face, by Marcel Aymé.One of the best of Gallic ironists tells what happens when a solemn, rather dutiful Frenchman gets a handsome new face...
...chaotic train and plane rides of a series of one-night stands. Boyer called in Gregory and announced that he was quitting. Gregory silkily assented, but added, as an afterthought, that the instant Boyer left he would be served with a $100,000 lawsuit for breach of contract. With Gallic practicality, Boyer calmed down...
...distinguished audience sat entranced as trumpets sounded from the heights of the basilica and Father Emile Martin's crack St.-Eustache choir gave full throat to the music. With the final rousing chorus of Vivat Rex in Aeternum, the critics were aglow with Gallic pride...
...Memories. But the hated Boche is not a subject for cool Gallic logic. Desperately, new Premier Edgar Faure, a fast-talking lawyer, bargained, hedged and pleaded. The Gaullists, with their old-fashioned militant nationalism and 118 votes, and the Communists, with their determination to sabotage and 101 votes, could not possibly be persuaded. The Socialists, whose 106 votes held the balance, were inclined to vote against the government. Even deputies from parties in Faure's own precarious coalition were caught up in old bitter memories, and such new irritations as the Saar question and West Germany's cocky...