Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should...
...afternoon before. Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister, took the floor and declared that those of Leon Blum's proposals which were not "pure inflation" were measures which he had himself advocated to be carried out by a Cabinet more representative of France than the Popular Front. "When I proposed them, Mr. Premier," said old Caillaux. "you said you would as soon have a king in France as what you are asking...
...final emotional appeal the Premier undertook to tell the "dotards" that not they but the members of the Chamber, who are a few years younger, alone had any right to upset the Popular Front. "Even if you desire such a change in the majority," cried Orator Blum, his voice rising, "it is only for the Chamber, elected by universal suffrage!" Here Senate President Jules Jeanneney cut the Premier short: "Mr. Premier, it is for the Senate, which is an assembly of the Republic, to pronounce its opinion freely-and it will do so in a few minutes...
...minutes the Senators had killed the second Popular Front Cabinet 223-to-49, and numerous Senators fulminated that their assembly is the one which represents the geographical districts of France,* and primarily the peasantry and French landholders, large & small. Meanwhile, away went Socialist Blum, hugging the fine chance he had created for again arousing proletarian wrath against "The Dotards." Technically the Cabinet need not have resigned, for in the Senate the Premier had not posed the question of confidence, but he and his Popular Front ministers trooped off to hand their resignations to President Albert Lebrun who immediately named...
...Snakes, contrary to popular supposition, have good vision. Those tested included garter snakes, king snakes, ribbon snakes and rattlesnakes. They see worst just before shedding their skins, best just after shedding, because the snake's cornea grows opaque as shedding time nears and is sloughed off with the skin...