Word: vives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Adam's Rib," as the title might indicate, has to do with whether or not there is a difference between men and women, and it moves painfully along on this material until the end. There is a difference, though a small one, admits Katherine Hepburn. "Vive la difference," shouts Spencer Tracy as he closes the curtains on the old four poster. Then everybody goes home...
Near the royal palace, septuagenarian Queen Mother Elisabeth approached a voting booth. For a moment she fumbled for her glasses in her handbag. Housemaid Juliette Deemes shouted: "Let Leopold come back and get a good kick in the backside!" From indignant bystanders rose countercries "Vive la Reine...
Amid shouts of "Vive Petain/" from the audience, Belleval denounced the proceedings as a "dishonor to France," proposed a token bid of one franc for each item on sale, so that the objects might be returned to Petain. The offer was turned down. The indignant audience burst into the Marseillaise. Fifty policemen finally cleared the hall. Once more the Marshal's belongings would gather dust. The old man would scarcely have found use for them, anyway...
...dear, she told her audience in her fearless French. "are shared by countless Canadians who want to build an even greater country for their children." That sort of talk stirred the 1,700 men & women packed in the Windsor's ballroom and Peacock Alley to sing the jaunty Vive la Canadienne in her honor...
...extremist in the back of the room occasionally muttered "Vive de Gaulle" to the doubtful gratification of these within hearing distance...