Word: pardonnez
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...Bill Bennett got up b) Gustavo Kuerten yelled, "Stop your incessant chewing, Mr. Jowly!" c) Agassi lost d) the joker next to him said, "Pardonnez...
What if President Clinton walked by Boris Yeltsin without saying "hi" or bumped into Jacques Chirac without a "pardonnez-moi?" Why, that's an international diplomatic gaffe of the highest proportions. If U.S. News & World Report factored etiquette into their rankings, fair Harvard might not even make third...
...bill, for three people, was $52.50. But we got two appetizers, three entrees, un dessert, and, pardonnez-nous, beaucoup de Corona. I'm glad I went. Had a good time! J'y etais content! Beaucoup de Corona! Beaucoup! Beaucoup...
...HEADED for the seawall, now totally black and foggy. A dark black shape moved in the darkness against the wall. "Francois?" But it was an old man, perhaps from the next town, on his way home by the shortest route. "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur, avez-vous vu un petit homme bossu qui courait... have you seen a little hunchback running along the wall?" The man stumbled back into the dark, changing his path a little--"Non, non, non..." --and vanished...
...every drink that Chaim Soutine refused, Jules Pascin downed twelve. Ulcers did not bother him, though his overworked liver did. In 1930, when he was 45, it became clear that his liver would soon give out altogether. Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, pardonnez-moi" in blood on the wall, and, for good measure, hanged himself. The girl friend of the message, Lucy Krogh, subsequently opened an art gallery. Last week she staged a retrospective show of Pascin's paintings and drawings...
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