Word: gastounet
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...with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little Gaston could be off he had to do a final chore...
After an all-night rail journey beaming Gastounet arrived in Nice. Here he was to make what his entourage said would be the last great speech of his career-and incidentally the first one in which as President of France he would freely speak his mind. Ordinarily the President is supposed to be hyperneutral about everything, but he is allowed to have one final fling. Appropriately last week this fling was made in a gambling house, the famed Palais de la Méditerranée built at Nice by Frank Jay Gould of Paris and New York, dedicated...
Well launched in his most sonorous style, Gastounet continued...
...Extravagances de Gastounet...
...angry Frenchman made formal demand upon the Pontifical Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, for complete retraction of Osservatore's story. "Mondieul", shrugged the Embassy press spokesman. "Is it likely that our Protestant President would say such things? Est-ce possible? Maisnon! Meme a un cardinal, notre bon Gastounet ne dirait pas de pareilles extravagances...