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...Doumergue has been nicknamed "Le President qui rit." His smile is infectious. He speaks with all his heart and his heart is good, sensible, generous. A sturdy Gascon of Nîmes, he loves an occasional bull fight. "They please me," he once declared with habitual caution, "more than do some other spectacles that are supposed to be pleasant." The "other spectacles" included nothing not mentionable. M. Le President, though a bachelor, is accounted among the most celibate of that...
...appearance, the Marshal is slight, supple, short with the bandied legs of a cavalryman. His blue eyes, luminous, still retain much of their flash and his mental faculties are alert. He is difficult to converse with, being by nature taciturn, a strange virtue in a Gascon; but when he has a subject in hand to discuss, he begins willingly and almost invariably prefaces his remarks with "Let's get down to business." His aunt says of him: "I always wait until Ferdinand has chewed his third cigar before I look for him to come out of his thoughts...
...word coined from Gascon, a native of Gascony, whose propensity for bragging was a byword in France. † The total strength of the French Army is about 650,000. The Metropolitan Army (i.e., exclusive of the Colonials) has a peace strength of about 350,000. Possibly the mobilization strength is 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 at the outside. **Poland is not a member of the Little Entente, but has signed military conventions with Czecho-SIovakia and Rumania...
...program will be as follows: Richard Mandl, Overture to a Gascon Comedy; Berlioz, Symphony, "Harold in Italy," No. 3, op. 16 (Solo Viola, Mr. Ferir); Aria; Sibelius, 'The Swan of Tuonela"; Songs, Weber, Overture, "Euryanthe...
...excellent line with an inimitable drawl, and convulsed the audience by his solo "Absent-Minded," R. N. Baldwin '05 sang "The Ghost" and "Guidarello Gidarelli" with ease and snap. His burlesque of the sate ghost was amusing, but not consistent, even for the purposes of comic opera. For Gascon Abandon and D'Artagnan-like swagger B. Joy '05 was all that the part of DeTrop required, and his songs "Soldiers of Fortune" and "Gascony" gave life even to the well-trained chorus. "Alfred Dante Petrarch," "Castles in Spain," and "Araby" were sung with good enunciation and graceful action...