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Show Bitter. Miss Anna Held, at a tea on la Provence, Prov-ence, praised the French. "The only French quality I dislike," she said, "is cynicism, and sometimes 1 think French cynicism is preferable to Anglo-Saxon sentimentality. " 'The mushy Anglo-Saxon idealization idealiza-tion of stage hero or book here is, in my opinion, falser to human nature na-ture than the cynical French woman's remark: " 'Nothing equals the skepticism of a married woman, unless, indeed, it be the credulity of an unmarried one.' " |