Word: touting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that this was made necessary by the threats from Communists. The Reds, on the contrary, decided to boycott the parade, to protest loudly, peacefully, far away from the "rich quarter" of the city where the "insolent cortege" is to be held. "Apres tout, mon vieux," quoth one old Frenchman to another. "Il ne sont que des gosses?n' importe quoi pourra se passer...
...male organ in the flower. Would it not be of more importance to a journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum...
...Phillipe, who, while riding in a taxicab, allegedly shot himself (1923). Editor Daudet has always charged that the police "murdered" his son, and for this "defamation" he was sentenced, 18 months ago, to serve five months in jail. As the hour of 1 p. m. approached last week, tout Paris kept an eager ear for news that policemen had swarmed over sandbags and barbed wire, rushed the "Camelots" and dragged a plump, irate editor to jail. Instead it was a group of Communists who first molested the Royalist premises...
Thus supported, M. Daudet could and did snap his fat fingers last week, when friends asked if he would go to jail, saying "Pouff! Pas du tout!" ("Not much...
...Latin vespers' chant rose majestic and sonorous. Notre Dame seemed every moment less a church of man, and more the infinite, spacious House of God. Then Paul Claudel was suddenly upon his knees. . . . "Alors se produisit," he has said, "I'événement qui domine tout ana vie. This, of all my life, was the dominant moment. My heart was touched. Je crus-I believed! . . . Blinding, ineffable, had come the revelation. I had realized the heart-rending innocence, the eternal childhood...