Word: qu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German questioners in Gestapo headquarters. Their leader aid: 'We give you one last chance, Captain Er, Captain Um, Captain Désiré.' I aw a woman with gold teeth and dirty hair who came towards me asking: Qu'est-ce que tu désires, Désiré?' 'I refuse,' I shouted. 'I will not go with that name...
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...cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your French Canadian Vacation is waiting for you, now- or when Victory is won." The All-Year Club of Southern California frankly gave up, plugged war bonds, said, with a tear in its eye: ". . . After the war . . . Southern...
Nostalgic reminiscences on the pre-1929 era of decadence, short skirts, and "tout ce qu'il-y-a plus chic" partake of one of the strongest traditions on the Advocate, of which Marvin Barrett's "The Party" in the previous issue was a continuation. In this vein is "The Year the Rain Came to Deauville" by Curtis Thomas, a narrative-essay on the super-sophisticated international set which located its feverish merriments at the resort towns of France. The sub-title is "Or Why France Fell," and an Editor's Note gives a sociological twist probably not intended...
...Dining Car. In this same car, in this same spot, in the bleak November dawn of another Friday 22 years ago tough old Marshal Foch received the German delegation with these words: "Qu'est-ce que vous désirez, messieurs?" ("What do you want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared...