Word: menceau
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Gradually the 84-year-old "Tiger" softened, as several veteran Senators strolled in. Grouped about him, they inquired after his failing health. "Que faites-vous, mon cher M. Clémenceau?" they asked, espying the volume of Goethe...
...Some fine morning La France will awake to find that old Clémenceau has been in his grave for a fortnight...
...Senators wrung his hand: "La France will mourn you long, M. Clémenceau. As her most gallant champion, have you the heart to abandon her thus in the night...
...menceau. "An Asiatic? At first glance he seems one . . . with his yellow skin, his saddle-nose between prominent cheekbones, and his Tartar moustache . . . a bully out of Brittany . . . an all too aged Cyrano . . . sitting by the fireside, in his peasant boots and grey suede gloves . . . uttering harsh words of scorn . . . the Prussianest of Frenchmen! . . . I could show you letters of German generals and princes who sigh: 'If only we had a German Clémenceau...
...fray Clémenceau victoriously bounded back into power. As Senator, Minister of the Interior, and finally Premier, he spent a decade in governing constructively where he had once sought only to tear down incompetence and claw dishonesty to ribbons...