Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from eastern Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania) were against the Socialist International because they feared to break with the Communists. Their spokesman was grey-haired, bright-eyed Anna Kethly, now Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament. Said Anna Kethly: "It would be disastrous for Hungary to end the present cordial relations with Russia, owing to the geographical proximity...
...once a teacher in a Negro college in Kentucky, believes in teaching both racial and musical harmony. Antioch teachers have told him, he says, that "the only trouble [I face] might be in keeping faculty and students from making too much over me in an effort to be cordial...
...Pert Judy Garland (Mrs. Vincente Minnelli) burlesquing a world-weary but oh-so-cordial movie queen in a dance-and-doggerel brush with the press. ¶ Tenor James Melton and Soprano Marion Bell warbling their way through the wine-cup scene from Verdi's La Traviata...
...watch. Neighbors brought him rice and vegetables, and local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink of Swiss mountain sailors...
...London (Associated British; 20th Century-Fox) is probably the most pro-American picture ever made outside the U.S. A story of the G.I. Occupation of England (circa 1943-44), it is not merely patient with the Yanks who swarmed over Piccadilly Circus like lusty, thirsty locusts. It is downright cordial toward the good-natured, homesick army of boys who whistled at the girls up & down Regent Street or Shaftesbury Avenue, jammed the pubs to drink up all the spirits in sight...