Word: rit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doumergue has been nicknamed "Le President qui rit." His smile is infectious. He speaks with all his heart and his heart is good, sensible, generous. A sturdy Gascon of Nîmes, he loves an occasional bull fight. "They please me," he once declared with habitual caution, "more than do some other spectacles that are supposed to be pleasant." The "other spectacles" included nothing not mentionable. M. Le President, though a bachelor, is accounted among the most celibate of that...