Word: doubletalker
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...gestures and faces Kaye makes are enough to win him a niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...
Nobody, least of all the U.S. Government, supposed that Japan would not find the pact full of meaning if, at some later date, it became safe to challenge the U.S. Just now Japan was preoccupied in keeping the U.S. mollified by polite doubletalk. But to German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott double-talk is not pleasing. At an anniversary luncheon at Foreign Minister Toyoda's home he talked straight...
Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Louis Krasner with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; six sides). Much of the music of Viennese Composer Berg, who died in 1935 (a disciple of Atonalist Arnold Schonberg), sounds like tortured, caterwauling doubletalk. But in this concerto, his atonalism is for once eloquent and heartfelt; it is Composer Berg's elegy on the death of his friend Manon Gropius, daughter of famed Architect Walter Gropius. The Clevelanders and Modernist Krasner give a stirring performance...
...this, which might be read as critical doubletalk: "Some stupid Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...
...friend who remembered hearing them many years ago in "Hell's Half Acre" in St. Louis. Henry printed the song, remarked its similarity to the current No. 1 sheet-music seller, the No. 2 ditty of the NBC and CBS networks, The Hut-Sut Song. This doubletalk, mock-Swedish "serenade" was written by Ted McMichael (of the singing "Merry Macs"), Jack Owens, Leo V. Killion. The song goes as follows...