Word: mending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
France's new Premier Edgar Faure has set himself a characteristic goal: to steer a middle course between Mendès-France's contentious boldness and the do-nothingism of Mendès' predecessors. "I know people will talk about my having a small appetite," he said. "I don't eat everything in sight. I nibble...
...week's end Mendès announced that he was leaving for a month's skiing and thinking, while Faure prepared to govern France by carom shot...
...French army doctor, Edgar Jean Vincent Barthelemy Faure (pronounced fore) was a nearsighted youth but a dazzling student, won his bachelor's degree at 15, his law degree at 19 from the Paris Faculty of Law, where he met another brilliant young law student, Pierre Mendès-France. In 1931 Faure married tall, blonde, elegant Lucie Meyer, daughter of a prosperous silk merchant, took his old friend Mendès on the honeymoon-a months-long tour of Russia (Mendès took sick, was sent home), during which Faure polished up the Russian he had learned...
...used his criminal cases as background for a series of detective stories written under the pen name of Edgar Sanday. The Faures caught the last boat to leave Vichy France for North Africa, where Edgar joined General de Gaulle. After liberation he was put in a financial job by Mendès, then Minister of National Economy. A typical Faure legend has it that he committed the 1,000-page tax catalogue to memory in four days, amazed the Assembly by answering questions on a complex tax proposal for two hours without preparation or notes. Later, he served...
...first-naming familiarity. He lives in deep-carpeted splendor in one of Paris' most fashionable apartment houses with his wife and their two daughters. His energetic wife publishes a political review. La Nef, presides over a salon peopled with avant-garde writers and left-wing intellectual-politicians. Where Mendès whipped men to decision by the scornful lash of his tongue, Faure seeks to cajole. But two months ago Faure flew into a rage when L'Express' Editor Servan-Schreiber hinted that he had reduced the tax on race horses for the sake of his fellow...