The French Academythe 40 most learned men in France who meet in L'Institut de France and guard the purity of the French language with the vigilance of a duennadecreed that the word "cocktail" has no place on the tongue of the Frenchman. Not even was coquetcle, a substitute compromise, allowed. The word is outlawed. Georges Clemenceau, "The Tiger," was interviewed in Vendee. He stood under an oak and said: "This is my old friend. A little older than I. It has lived 2,000 years."
The interviewer mentioned the League of Nations. Purred the Tiger:...
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