Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Corbett, citizen of France, son of an English banker, stood in the iron-railed prisoner's dock at Draguignan in Southern France last week, facing a judge and a jury of hard-faced farmers. Hesitant witnesses told how the accused had learned that his elderly French mother was suffering...
Women wept hysterically. A farmer-juryman paled, called for brandy, collapsed. Locked up at last in the jury room the farmers soon sent out a message, stated that they wished to find a verdict against the prisoner but wanted assurance from the Judge that Richard Corbett would be pardoned.
Parisian Novelist Francois Mauriac: "It is lucky the jury was chosen among people not given to the habit of reflection. For myself, it would have taken me about a year to make up my mind."
"No! No!" roared Deputies of a dozen factions leaping up to cheer, "Vive Briand! Vive La France!"
"It is now necessary to say squarely what one wants! If you believe that France is badly engaged, then disengage her. The Young Plan is bad? It violates the rights of France? Then tear it up, tear up The Hague Convention! . . . The International Bank [see p. 30] is bad? Suppress...