Word: passee
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It was in these same leisure hours that Grant took to "solitary drinking" because (his present biographer is a disciple of passe Freud) he had no Mexican mistress, shrank from raucous army companions, refused to attend a second bullfight. Considerable drunkenness was overlooked in those days, but Grant's...
Although "shooting over dogs" is the most time-sanctioned method, it is now entirely passe, chiefly because smart, modern sportsmen no longer want to trudge after dogs which advance before them, flushing or scaring up the birds.
Give an apple to dear Kitty for a passe
All this pleased mightily Austen's father, the late beloved "Joe" Chamberlain, Lord Salisbury's great Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs. All this training in old school diplomacy seemed strangely passe last week when Austen Chamberlain grown up to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was called...
In 1923 and 1924, in Manhattan Coue held clinics, murmured, "Ca passe, ca passe!" and gathered up the dollars and discarded crutches, heard stutterers talk fluently, noted Coueism turn fad, society women form Coue clubs. Later they sponsored Mah Jong, talked of East Wind, not "Every day, in every way...