Word: borsch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where he painted murals for Moscow's Jewish Kamerny Theater and taught art in his native Vitebsk. In 1922 he returned to Paris to become a naturalized Frenchman. "I owe all that I have achieved," he once wrote, "to Paris, to France." (Chagall is about as French as borsch...
...ample paunch and sighed with content. His Ballet Theatre had just opened Manhattan's annual ballet season at the Metropolitan Opera House. His Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was to join it a week later at the same stand. While balletomanes roared approval in accents as thick as borsch, more staid Manhattanites took stock of the first of five brand-new ballet productions, mooned nostalgically over such puff-skirted favorites as Swan Lake and Sylphides, such latter-day spectacles as Petrouchka and Bluebeard...
While experts surveyed the landscape for destruction, Russian men and women formed a long line, cheerfully helped Canadian soldiers unload equipment and ammunition. Later the Russians opened their communal food center to the Canadians. Enthusiastic Major Murdoch reported: "We tasted such delicacies as borsch and cranberry pie for the first time, and were regaled on steaks hung till they were so tender they could have been eaten with a spoon...
Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...
...Molotov Borsch. None of this had been missed by Premier Viacheslav Molotov when he rose to address the Supreme Council of the U. S. S. R. in Moscow. His speech was an interesting borsch whose recipe was two parts passivity to one part provocation. Russia must "refrain from participating in the war between the big European powers." In fact, Comrade Molotov was all for peace -on Germany's terms and with Russia keeping her slice of Poland. On the other hand he charged the Allies with trying to use the Finnish war as "a starting point for war against...