Word: surtout
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...Surtout, de la Dignité. No party in France was more anxious to block the London agreement than the Reds. But last week they sat quiet, letting other government critics do most of the talking. Party Chief Maurice Thorez had warned the comrades: "Above all, dignity." Once Bidault remarked that if Europe was split, it was Russia's fault. Fernand Grenier, Communist deputy from Saint-Denis, rose like an angry bull. But Thorez turned like lightning and imperiously shushed...
...wish to offer a judgment of superiority or inferiority. I critize Cambridge more severely than my American friends who have worked there. The unctuous epigram is too apt to be handed out as a substitute for statement. Et surtout, messieurs, pas trop de zele. On balance, though the assets in each case are quite different, there is perhaps not much to choose between the two. But if Cambridge tends too much to the dilettante, Harvard is not dilettante enough. Apart from that, I think that Cambridge, though harassed about its aims, subconsciously postulates certain functions of a university and satisfactorily...
...personal habits and dress he was immaculate. His clothes--such combinations as a blue surtout, black stockings, and red shoes,--often attracted much attention, and he had a distinct costume for every event. As his carriage proceeded down the street, traffic was held up that he might pass...
...beaucoup regretteront de n'avoir pu y assister! . . . Elle me rappelle notamment certaine fete annuelle que nous avons, nous aussi a Paris-ce fameux bal des quatre arts dont vos anciens vous auront transmis l'echo ou que certains parmi vous deja connaissent; mais, ce que je trouve surtout charmant dans la votre c'est cette gentille pensee d'y avoir convie d' abord M. le President de l'Universite, qui tres parternellement vous aime, n'en doutez pas, mais qu'un recent deuil de famille empeche malheureusement d'etre des votres ce soir, puis votre tres estime doyen...
...terminant je vous inviteral tout particulierement-n'oubliez jamais que vous appartenez a Harvard-sachez lui conserver le bon renom que vos amis lui ont acquis-prouvez enfin parvos travaux, et meme dans vos jeux, que vous la voulez toujours en tres bonne place parmi les grand universites. Restez surtout toujours jeunes, soyez inventifs comme vous l'ayez ete ce soir, et j'ai l'absolue conviction que l'architecture, elle aussi, y trouvera son compte...