Word: petitiveness
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France had not only been defeated in battle; her institutions had been discredited. Said Le Petit Gironde of Bordeaux: "Thus came the end of 20 years of errors and faults. We shall not say of crimes, since we still believe that those who have brought us to this pass were merely ignorant and blind-but they have drawn us into an adventure that dumbs us with stupor." So shattered was France's strength, so humbled her prestige, that a greater miracle than Germany's rise after Versailles would be needed ever to restore them...
...little man in France, Cartoonist Fabreès, 45, was onetime art editor of Le Petit Journal in Paris. He has globetrotted enough to feel that humor is everywhere much the same. The kind he likes is good-natured. Caption of his Scandal in a Nudist Colony: "They have put potatoes in jackets on our table! What fools...
...years since King Gustaf's birth is just about the best possible argument for constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were negligible, but he was a good politician and his wife...
...maneuvers would begin August 1, and would be held on the Netherlands frontier. Just as another warning to Poland's allies as well as to Germany that Poland would not accept a "Munich deal" over Danzig, Marshal Smigly-Rydz gave an interview to the Paris newspaper, Le Petit Parisien, in which he pointedly said: "Poland will fight, if necessary alone, to keep its right in the Free City...
...Schwab has made other electroencephalographic observation in coordination with electro myograms. The latest field of experiment is the determination of the connection of petit-mal epileptic fits with the rate of breathing...