Word: toutonic
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...American consumer. Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of the French employers' association medef, suggested last week that businesses shouldn't pay the price for politics. "Send telegrams to our consulates," he counseled angry American consumers. "But don't attack our perfumes, our yogurts and our airplanes." Guillaume Touton, a French-born wine importer in New York, has gone a step further: direct payments to the Pentagon. Or close to it. A $1 contribution will go toward care packages for American troops in Iraq for every case of French wine he sells, each emblazoned with a sign: "By purchasing this...
...these troubles are associated in Touton minds with the Republic, which has become increasingly unpopular. Nor has it been able to keep order. A monarchy, either of the Hohenzollerns or of the rival Bavarian House of Wittelsbach, is again very much talked...
...action kicking a soccer ball; Pershing may now desire to follow their example. The lieutenants may soon be equipped with footballs and in true Mahan style rush over the top, followed by their platoons. War is a constantly changing game and such a formation might terrorize the most terrible Touton. A little scrimmage in No Man's Land between barrages would also serve as a diversion to the worn-out doughboy...
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