Word: voila
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...message ticked in over the wire last week Paris newshawks laid fingers to noses and looked extremely wise. Ah ha said they, "Voila un autré!" The message...
...Voila!" was the unanswerable argument of the petitioners. The healthy babe, they added, had already been named Alfred Pinteau. Prudently the President of the Republic bowed to a fact of nature. The law, he decreed, should in this case be set aside. Proud 12-year-old Adrienne Delamare announced that she will be married Oct. 7 by the Mayor of Catillon. "She will be the Youngest Wife in France," boasted bold Henri Pinteau, "and I shall be the Youngest Husband...
...imagination of his contemporaries, the man who had called France the fatherland of his genius, passed through the courts of the palace, and entered the presence of the Emperor. When he bowed in the doorway, Napoleon, first among those present to greet him, raised his arm and cried "voila un homme...
...lifetime of erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem" it is Faust.* The Emperor Napoleon, to whom Genius Goethe was presented at the zeniths of their careers, engaged him in profound conversation for some time, then implanted the seal of French approval by exclaiming, "Voila un homme?There...
When news of this reached Paris, the commonality of Frenchmen either tapped their foreheads significantly or exclaimed with rapture: "Voila un original...