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...Impossible, Monsieur" has been the sorrowful response of countless French tobacconists when stranded U. S. men have managed to gasp out: "Avez-vous Chesterfields?" or "Donnez-moi des Luckies...
...Etat, c'est moi,* "beamed Louis XIV of France. Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg might paraphrase: "The State Department, that's me." Last week, in an aftermath conversation about Senator Carter Glass's criticism of the State Department's foreign loan policy (TIME, Oct. 24), in retort to a rumor that the State Department was of divided opinion on the subject, President Coolidge said he had always assumed that the Department of State was the Secretary of State...
...Donnez moi une cigraette, Monsieur...
...statuet vender," and held up to view a statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me?stiff like this...
...merveilleuse! C'est toute pour moi, mes amis. . . . But he has locked it up with his will. Que voulez-vous? He refuses to let it be produced while he lives. . . . Ah! The most wonderful old man in France! . . .He said to me: 'I have had the most beautiful love affairs it ever befell any man to experience. That is why when I am in the country I insist that not even important telegrams be forwarded to me. Before I die I must have a little quiet to remember my happy youth...