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...Brussels two gendarmes lolled last week near a corner of the famed Avenue de Louise, perhaps the most impeccable residential street in Europe. From the leafy Bois de la Cambre a motorcycle sped into the quiet Avenue, its exhaust rat-tatting raucously. The gendarmes' whistles screamed. . . . "Your papers, Monsieur, your license? It is not permitted to circulate upon the Avenue de Louise at such a speed. C'est interdit...
...your news of France can you not give the title of men mentioned in your articles, instead of referring to them by the mere title of M. (Monsieur) ? In mentioning members of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, or any other governmental body, I like to see their title used. This means of designation helps one to read with more understanding, especially in the case of lesser known persons whose record is not familiar to the general public...
...envy of Producers D. W. Griffith or Cecil B. De Mille. Imagine the quandary of even a well-informed newspaper correspondent, cornered perhaps by Pra Sundra Vachana, First Secretary of the Siamese legation, or Abu-el-Enein Salem Effendi, second attaché of the Egyptian legation, with the inquiry: "Monsieur, will you be so kind as to point out to me the gentlemen who have recently distinguished themselves in the operations of the Congress...
...lifted a sad, tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...
...week later the French Ambassador wrote home indignantly that "Monsieur John Adams [previously a U.S. negotiant at Paris, later President of the U.S.] has made most false representations...