Word: vous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walking the Marquess of Crewe, British Ambassador to France. "Le voila," cried a voice, choking down a morsel of the yard of bread which he carried under his arm. "C'est le rol George." "Non, non," re- sponded another, "c'est I'ambassadeur britannique." "Je vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation. Out of the car stepped a man dressed in the sky-blue uniform of a French officer; on his head was a cap with a dome en- circled by hoops of gold. Evidently he was a Marshal of France...
...Mais non, mais non! Je vous dit qu'ils dorment." A hundred-franc note passed. "Nom de chien! Je vous-eh bien! Je vais voir." Minutes passed...
...many other parts of France, particularly in Alsace and Lorraine, the religious question (TIME, Sept. 8) is a favorite topic for conversation. Men, and sometimes women, gather at their favorite cafe and after a preliminary garçon, une fine champagne, or un bock, s'il vous plaît, they lean forward over their tables and start the conversation with: Qu'est-ce que se passe en Alsace Lorraine; qu'est-ce que se passera? Herriot, que va-t-il faire...
...Jews. It appears that his best defense is that he was the tool of these people. At any rate, when Karolyi and some of his ministers appeared before General Franchet d'Esperey at Belgrade to negotiate armistice terms, the Allied Generalissimo looked scornfully at them and said: "Vous etes juifs?" Turning to Karolyi he said: "Vous etes tombes si bas?" Then turning on his heel he left them, declining to negotiate terms of an armistice for Hungary. That was the impression which the Ministers of Hungary made. After this it appeares that Karolyi was unable...
date for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924. In the United States are some tens of millions of newly enfranchised women. There was once the very successful Abbey of Theleme, with the single regulation, "Fay que vous voulay". the Abbot thereof was extremely popular; and so, too, a modern analogue might well...