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...Dining Car. In this same car, in this same spot, in the bleak November dawn of another Friday 22 years ago tough old Marshal Foch received the German delegation with these words: "Qu'est-ce que vous désirez, messieurs?" ("What do you want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared...
...number of years the progress of the club was slow. The next annual dinner was held in 1867 and then again in 1869 at Delmonico's which gradually became the regular rendez-vous for meetings and dinners. After four or five lean years the club slowly began to gather that momentum which was to result in unprecedented success. By 1871 the membership had jumped to 139 and by 1879 over 250 Harvard men had joined the organization...
...vous, à vous, à vous...
...Vous avez des regards qui nous ensorcellent...
...tune, like 1937's Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (TIME, Dec. 27, 1937), sounded unmistakably, dumpily Yiddish. Sure enough, after long investigation the song's publishers (Sing Song Music Corp.) finally admitted that A vous tout de vey was only so much French dressing. A Bronxier way of spelling: Avu tut dir vey. Meaning: "Where does it hurt...