Word: basil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow it was the anniversary of Lenin's death. The city smoked with the cold. From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars. It was 50 degrees below zero. To Correspondent Eve Curie, a little old woman in a tattered shawl said: "This is a real Russian winter. A winter to freeze Russia's enemies. A winter to freeze Hitler...
...though never to the exclusion of the view that the responsibility for Naziism is as broad as the surface of the planet. He manages to whip in a good deal of data on the U.S., England, France; on such symptomatic side shows as the Lindbergh kidnap scare, Basil Zaharoff's patronage of mediums, and the game of put-&-take played at the Geneva Arms Limitation Conference. But he draws his most serious bead on Germany, and on what happened there to his hero Lanny Budd...
...Said Basil O'Connor, onetime law partner of President Roosevelt and head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis: "The length of time during which pain, tenderness and spasm are present is greatly reduced and contractures caused by muscle shortening during . . . [the early] period are prevented by the Kenny method. The general physical condition of the patients receiving this treatment seems to be better than that of patients treated by some of the other methods...
...fatal slip into sentiment the Senior Controller of Programs of the British Broadcasting Corp. was fired last week. The Senior Controller, Basil Edward Nicolls, did not himself make the slip; it was made by Christopher Stone, a brother-in-law of Novelist Compton Mackenzie. It consisted in wishing the King of Italy a happy birthday by radio and adding: "I don't think any of us wish him anything but good, poor soul...
...jolly, pacing romp in which the hats were especially nifty, the sly 'plot especially profuse. In the world of ballet (where troupes change the way French Cabinets used to), the new Ballet Theatre now had the edge on the Massine ballet (Monte Carlo) and Colonel Wassily de Basil's ballet (Original), which have contrived no new hits this year...