Word: vasselot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...from Manners. One night last week the polite pair received a rude shock. They had just broken into the tasty Bois de Boulogne villa of Lionel de Tinguy du Pouet, France's Under Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs, when they were confronted with Madame de Vasselot, the Under Secretary's aging but formidable mother-in-law. Suavely they asked her the way to the nearest safe and requested her to open it. The old lady refused pointblank...
Fatty threatened gently for two hours. Mme. de Vasselot remained adamant. Then the petit gros forgot his manners. Whipping out a pocket knife, he vowed he would cut Madame's ears off then & there if she did not relent. Mme. de Vasselot opened the safe...
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