Word: ricain
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...million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout was to France's Comité Franco-Américain pour la Restauration des Monuments...
...friends," cried "L'Américain," "you don't know what it is to form a ministry of 15 people.* With 15 possible members of Parliament, you're sure to have ten incompetents and five traitors. I don't know which is worse, incompetents or traitors...
...Frenchman sees a "staggering drunk" in Paris, he assumes that it is an American? American customs, as observed in France, have even enriched the French language by a new comparison: instead of ivre comme un Polonais, the familiar expression is now (alas!) saoul comme un Américain [drunk as an American...
...shipyards rivet together no cargo boats but build only passenger ships was excitably commented on last week by buoyant Louis Rollin who, now rejoicing in the title of French Minister of Marine, is one of the most irrepressible go-getters in the Cabinet of "Tardieu l'Américain...
Vigorously last week Tardieu L'Américain lashed into the Deputies a proposal to hold three sessions every week day until the budget is voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did a double-snapper with his whip-demanded that they sit thrice a day on Sunday too. Rebellion loomed, but Ringmaster Tardieu fired a figurative blank cartridge, demanded a vote of confidence. After less than a month in Power he has the Deputies so thoroughly cowed that they licked his hand...