Word: pernods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second year of the War found France worrying more than usual about her declining birth rate. ... A blackmailing publisher of a small Paris paper hit upon a plan to shake down the firm of Pernod Fils, large absinthe manufacturers, by threatening to campaign for the prohibition of absinthe. His plan of attack took advantage of the following popular beliefs...
...Pernod Fils refused to pay the blackmail demands and the said publisher commenced his campaign in print. Due to War hysteria and the general desire to do anything to win the War, to say nothing of the Frenchman's morbid fear of such a terrible catastrophe as mass-impotence (some Frenchmen won't smoke American cigarets because they believe them to contain saltpetre), the movement caught the popular fancy and was militantly endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could...
...Chamber was not in session last week, but French Deputies meeting on the boulevards over long amber goblets of Pernod asked each other who was ce petit bonhomme Tourenq who was raising such a riot in the Ministry of Finance. Dust from the Oustric scandal (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930) was still in the air. What, if anything, did small Tourenq know...
...French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern in their technique but it was a suave, well-tempered modernism. Here was a group of artists who have arrived, spiritually, socially, financially. A little bronze by the late Antoine Bourdelle, one of the greatest of modern sculptors, looked as uncomfortable...