Word: mieux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tiens, Messieurs!" he cried with an engaging smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what they used to say in American frontier towns. Voyons, Messieurs! With what do you reproach me? The only two laws which have been passed since my Government came into office [TIME, Nov. 11] had the support of five-sixths of the Chamber. Shall I make another argument...
...felt, might have some ground of annoyance against one who has never spared them with his tongue. Dallas and Houston were debarred, as the judge had heard that Mr. Norris had "experienced trouble" there. Austin was said to be too small, but was finally elected, faute de mieux...