Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant music (one of the late Composer Jerome Kern's final movie chores before his death in 1945). No melody is bellowed from a stage or smothered in a big production number. Every song is tossed off, impromptu style, by whatever talent happens to be standing around at cue time. Even Constance Bennett, who presumably never took a singing lesson in her life, has a fling...
...Politician Harry Truman had counted on Congress picking up the cue and becoming his supporting cast in a last-minute rescue, he soon learned his mistake. Within a few minutes after hearing his message, the House-by a margin of 38 votes-sustained the veto. The Senate turned down a resolution that would have extended the present law temporarily. It required unanimous consent-and Texan O'Daniel immediately objected. At midnight, 34 hours later, OPA died...
Death came on cue, in the black hours before dawn. Bravura was there, too. Said the dying President of Chile to his Minister of Justice: "How should I die? On my stomach, on my side, or on my back?" For his War Minister he had a smart salute, then, "Adiós, General...
...Soviet press and radio, taking its cue from Molotov, blamed "the Anglo-Saxon bloc" for the deadlock. A fortnight ago Ernest Bevin had told the House of Commons: "Have we the moral right to say to 21 nations . . . 'you must go on in a state of war because we four gentlemen can't agree?' Really, this is an intolerable situation." He hinted at separate peace treaties with the former enemies. This obviously would split Europe in two. Molotov in Moscow had already said: "An intolerable situation...
Shanghai's municipal government, noted for its frequent banquets, promptly took the cue. It called a meeting of the local New Life Movement, adopted the slogan "Early to bed, early to rise," pledged tea parties instead of feasts, with no serving of wine or "offering of cigarets." For officials who clasp austerity to their bosoms, the Movement proposed a medal of honor and laudatory notice in the public prints...