Word: pinard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French army headquarters at Rabat, 100 miles away, moved quickly to rescue the beleaguered garrison. Three squadrons of bombing planes zoomed into the air. Eight thousand troops of the Foreign Legion soaped their horny feet, filled their canteens with good red pinard in preparation for the long march to Ait Yacoub...
...Sucettes." Meanwhile the Deputies continued their incredibly fatuous byplay. M. le Docteur Adolphe Pinard, Professeur a la Faculté de Médecine, Membre de l'Academie de Médecine, Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, Dean of the Chamber, arose and literally diverted his peers with a baby's "comforter." Said he in a fine burst of oratory: "For two years-two years!- have striven for the opportunity which is now mine. During that time and for years previously many of the infants of France have teethed upon a vile form of rubber nipple attached...
Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard. An unidentified Deputy shouted: "Don't you know that if you take their sucettes away, they'll suck their dirty fingers?" Incensed, the sponsor of the bill replied: "At least, Monsieur, the little ones cannot swallow their fingers and choke to death, as often happens when a sucette becomes lodged in the throat...
...Berengaria (Cunard)-Épinard, famed French racehorse; with his stablemate (Satin Slippers), his dog friend (Peter), his owner (Pierre Wertheimer), his trainer (Eugene Leigh) ; Arthur Hammerstein, theatrical producer, with his wife, Dorothy Dalton, cinema actress...
...same afternoon, at three o'clock, the new Chamber met for the first time under the temporary presidency of Professor Pinard, the oldest Deputy, who made a speech attacking the Poincare Government and advocating "a heavy tax on bachelors, and votes for women." The session was purely formal...