Word: vive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roared Deputies of a dozen factions leaping up to cheer, "Vive Briand! Vive La France...
Breathless minutes passed while the tellers counted. Two hundred fifty-six against Tardieu, but 327 for him?"Vive le Dauphin!" "Vive le Roi!" "Vive VAmericain...
...hired roustabouts and huskies to rush his stones into place. Rector Ladeuze stopped them with a court injunction and the entire police force of Louvain, then hired other huskies to put up his stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof of the library, hurled down and shattered most of the balustrade, marched away chanting Belgium's national air La Brabançonne. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze had a third set of "stones" hastily moulded from plaster of Paris. With these...
...like your attitude," he said, or at least so his interpreter said he said. "You Americans like the big risks. You burn the candle at both ends and at the middle. Vive l'Amerique!" He said a lot more too about what were going to be the winning football teams of the country, this fall, but that will be saved for tomorrow and subsequent Saturdays...
...Manager M. Sacha Guitry. Sacré bleu! Why were not more people clambering to see his Charles Lindbergh-his "heroic melodrama" in 30 scenes? What could be the matter? Had not finickiest critics praised the piece (TIME, Dec. 3.); and had not the first few audiences risen to shout "Vive Lindbergh! Vive La France...