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...article "Revolt & Revenge" [Sept. 5] is a good treatment of the subject, but pour-quoi do you find it necessaire to interrupt your English-speaking readers' trains of thought every now and again with un mot français? The practice strikes me as a bit stupide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Keith Memorial is holding over Danielle Darrieux--"Dare-you" is even better than "Sea Moan"--in her American debut, "The Rage of Paris." The picture is strongly recommended for its comedy, its subtlety, and that "je ne sais quoi" that these French girls seem to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reviews-- | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

...furious over "another French insult." Month ago L'Europe Nouvelle criticized the economic condition of Iran. The King of Kings demanded an apology, received one. A French columnist last week reopened the wound by rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi last week recall to Teheran his Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Chat and Shah | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...dramatic renditions of striking French ballads, it has its merits of its own, which the reviewer found as diverting as the talents of la belle diseuse. The performers are few in number and diverse in talent, but they all possess a great deal of that je ne sais quoi which makes variety entertaining. Charm is the word, though an inadequate one. The acts are arranged cleverly enough to allow not a single let-down, and the pace of the show accelerates to a last act which roused the opening night audience to resounding applause...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/21/1935 | See Source »

...quite understand, Alice. What the Clam is really saying is that you've got that certain something.. that certain 'Je ne sais quoi'... well, you've got personality, Mana; and that's exactly what the Amazulu value so much and why they would make you a priestess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1935 | See Source »

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