Word: petitiveness
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...Behind all this is the feeling that things are going to blow up. . . . The true strength of France lies in the fact that the land belongs almost entirely to small owners, the petit proprietaire of whom we hear so much. But unfortunately if the Communists get the command in France as they have done in Russia the petit pro-prietaire will merely become the hated kulak. And as there is no Siberia to which to send him he is likely to have a worse time than the Russian kulak...
...sent one of the five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit Journal. Last week the deal went through. From his modest Manhattan offices, Purchaser Annenberg announced that he was taking over active control of the Inquirer at once, that he had no backers, that the Inquirer would continue a stanch Republican sheet...
When Juanita had gone around the world as far as Hawaii she stopped. There, at Waikiki Beach, she bought a tent (she calls it "Villa Petit Peep") and settled down to live until necessity or wanderlust beckoned her further...
...Screamed Petit Parisien: "In impertinence, hypocrisy and false sentiments the German memorandum surpasses anything imaginable. The whole plan is an attempt to impose on the European problem a 100% German solution...
...years was making trouble for France. . . . Your aim is not patriotism as you say; that is merely the snare to catch the foolish & to set yourselves up in the selfish & feudal powers & privileges of your party. It is your party that counts, not France, nor its peasants & petit bourgeois. . . . And you would bring war (not of defense, which is right & just) misery & distress, as though we have not suffered enough with our four invasions between 1814 and 1914. . . . Vive la République always! HELOISE COLOMBE...