Word: merci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot say merci for your having ridiculed in your numero of novembre 29, the campagne now launched by the Academic Francaise to eliminer English paroles from the French langue...
Died. Wallingford Riegger, 75, versatile composer whose music, ranging from the romantic (La Belle Dame Sans Merci) to the atonal (Third Symphony), won prizes and international acclaim, and whose arrangements, under various pseudonyms, of everything from sacred music to Shortnin' Bread earned him a living; of head injuries after he tripped over a dog's leash; in Manhattan...
...there is enough intra-family whimsy to stop A. A. Milne him self in his Teddy bear tracks. They all had special names: the narrator is "Little D." to "Muv," and "Decca" to the rest of the world. They even had a private language, examples of which are merci lessly given. It is all very charming at first, but less so when Decca and Boud (big, "sullen," "baleful" Unity) get past the hair-pulling stage and make the big world their playroom. Boud took to scratching swastikas on the window (she had a diamond, of course), and Decca just naturally...
...Merci, Merci'." In Manhattan. United Nations' Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Democrat-at-Large Adlai Stevenson. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and ex-Governor Averell Harriman paid homage at the general's hotel suite in what the New York Herald Tribune called a "little summit.'' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit...
...Francisco added clusters of balloons to ticker tape, as citizens turned out in numbers that Chief of Police Thomas Cahill said hadn't been matched in 30 years. De Gaulle stood upright in a pale-blue convertible, chopping the air in two-handed greeting and murmuring "Merci, merci" as he bobbed his head from side to side. His aides had to brush off the confetti as he pulled up at the city hall for the Marseillaise and a word from Mayor George Christopher. Returning from a chilly tour of San Francisco Bay aboard a Coast Guard gunboat...