Word: bravos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, for the 959th time, Society President Jules Masse took to the air over CKAC (Montreal). As always, he opened with Expressions a corriger cette semaine. His prime examples: "Hip! Hip! Hurray!" should give way to "Hourra! Bravo!" and in the counting house Frenchmen should speak of un verificateur de limes, not un auditeur de limes...
Camera-shy Albert Einstein was surrounded (from left to far left) by guests: grinning Editor Henry Agard Wallace, whose "courage and devotion" got Einstein's bravo; grinning Columnist Frank Kingdon, who got Wallace's endorsement for Senator from New Jersey; and grinning Singer Paul Robeson, who seconded Kingdon's nomination...
...with my melancholy, I, who often look on myself as a despicable being, as a good for nothing creature who should escape from life,-I shall be upheld forever by the thought that I am linked to M. Rousseau. Goodbye. Bravo! I will live to the end of my days...
From here & there over the country telegrams cried bravo. In the midst of all these exclamation points came a lone period: a terse message from the Philharmonic board, releasing Rodzinski not at the end of the season, as he had asked, but at once. His spirits only soared higher. Elatedly, he jounced his two-year-old son's big clown doll on his knee and told it the news; he grabbed his 75-year-old mother around the waist, waltzed her around the room and cried exultantly: "Babushka, now we are going to Chicago...
...Charles Munch, France's greatest conductor, pleaded with the men in rehearsal: "Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please play lightly." When the orchestra finally caught on, Charles Munch threw the men a kiss and shouted "Bravo!" In the musicians' locker room afterward, there was a buzz of enthusiasm; a good many of the Philharmonic players had caught some of the Munch spirit that is proverbial in Paris...