Word: que
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FRIDHANDLER Montreal, Que...
Harvard Club of Seattle, Irving Clark, '41, 533 Dexter-Horton Building; Harvard Club of Syracuse, E. Tefft Banker '37, Hiscock, Cowle, Bruce, Lee and Mawhinney, Syracuse; Harvard Club of Washington, D. C., Captain William E. Eaton, 2901 Que...
Yell Leaders. Both the "papers of opinion" and the "papers of information" make the most of that freedom. "We are Latins," boasts stocky René Naegelen, publisher of Le Populaire. "Our press, on aime que fa gueule-we like it to yell!" The press makes no secret of its prejudices; the slogans of political parties and factions are emblazoned on mastheads. "To be informed," said an American newsman in Paris, "the Parisian must read at least five or six dailies. He must be more sophisticated and analytical than American readers. But after stripping opinions from the facts, he not only...
...Barbara Ann Scott, one "P.B.," writing in the obscure Le Bonheur of Trois Rivières, Que., had kind words: "I am ready to believe that this young girl is a model of virtue, modesty, discretion and grace." But for Barbara Ann's clothes and capers, and for figure-skating in general, fuddy-duddy "P.B." had only scorn. Last week L'Action Catholique, official mouthpiece of Quebec's Roman Catholic archdiocese, picked up his words, gave them wide (circ. 83,000) circulation...
...food market for her sharpness of tongue, spoke for them all when she said: "Ça, va mal chez moi, comme partout" ("Things are tough at home, and tough all over"). Said Jacques Rumpert, a petit bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden by the Seine, so I could fish. All that is out now, ... I am not a Gaullist. I'm not a member of the 'Third Force...