Word: pertinax
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Champions. Astute M. André Geraud, famed as Pertinax, leading Parisian journalist-oracle, has said of the present election: "Socialism would appear to be the principal issue . . . or rather, the battle will be fought between the uncompromising opponents of socialism and the people who halfway disapprove...
...rival and cautiously socialist ranks referred to by Pertinax stand the leaders of the famed Cartel des Gauches or Coalition of the Left Parties, which has been the strongest influence in French politics for 25 years. These men include Minister of Education Edouard Herriot, who has bungled so often as Prime Minister, Louis Loucheur "the richest man in France," and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut. Their orbit usually encompasses such more independent socialists as famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and that great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlev...
Thus in two sentences the President of the United States was devastated, last week, by "Pertinax," unquestionably the leading political critic-journal list of France. "Pertinax," of course, is vivacious, supremely intelligent M. André Géraud, Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris, a newspaper widely esteemed in French military, financial and high clerical circles...
...mere extemporizer, "Pertinax" did not flay President Coolidge out of hand or sight unseen. Twice he has visited Washington and there beheld and studied first, Vice President and then President Coolidge...
...What is this 'Pertinax' like?" wondered, last week, admirers of the President. Friends of Editor André ("Perttinax") Géraud were quick to recall him as an active, married man, possessing no children and but one flourishing, likeable dog. Scarcely a statesman in Europe is too potent to be conscious whether he has just been praised or blamed by "Pertinax's" trenchant, independent pen, and most Great Men are careful to recognize him with a nod or smile, when he inevitably appears to cover any European event of first political importance...