Word: quai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn the technique of hand grenades near the graves of Belleau Wood, and while Mussolini considers the beauty of machine guns, Aristide Briand has given European diplomats another opportunity to write their names on a piece of paper. Long featured in frayed journalese as the canny apostle of the Quai D'Orsay, Briand has dragged an ancient skeleton from the diplomatic closet placarded "Pan-Europe" and rattled its bones from the lake front of Geneva to the austere marble of the Hague...
Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...