Word: fresherator
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...east, from the Vosges to the Rhone Valley, fresher French divisions yielded ground dearly. Surrounded by the German horde that swept through Verdun from the west and the Maginot Line from the east, 500,000 fortress troops stood in isolated squares and fought until the signing at Compiegne was announced to them...
...fanfare was a trifle excessive. Many a musical has been fresher, cleverer, more original; several Cole Porter shows have had wittier lyrics, catchier tunes. But as a splendiferous version of regulation musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady is all there. Its costumes are gorgeous, its goings-on boisterous. Its wit is almost nil, but its wisecracks are raw as a cannibal sandwich, suggestive as a red light burning in the hall. Bert Lahr is at his best-which is good enough. Ethel Merman is at her best -which is tops...
...Boer War some 40 years ago included mixing powdered glass in the food of Boer children penned in British prison camps. Last week His Majesty's Government cited "this shameless propaganda, which is wholly without foundation" as its reason for suddenly rebutting with much hotter and much fresher atrocity charges. Off official London presses rolled another White Paper, entitled Papers Concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939. It was filled with details of torture and sadism in contemporary Nazi prison camps...
...buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...
...about it, signed him up. Last week Tenor Masini's Manhattan debut packed the Metropolitan with an expectant throng. Singing his favorite part, Edgardo in Lucia, Masini failed to make quite as high a mark as he had in Chicago. Critics found him no Caruso but a younger, fresher, less-seasoned Giovanni Martinelli...