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...arrival was an odd contrast to that cold, rainy morning last January when he steamed up Chesapeake Bay on Britain's biggest battleship, to be met at Annapolis by Franklin Roosevelt. This time only a State Department emissary was on hand to greet Lord and Lady Halifax...
Instead of Boches to greet the Canadians there had been a crowd of bright-faced, happy Russians. Describing the scene on his return to London, 28-year-old Major W. S. Murdoch painted a cheery picture. "Crowds of people rushed towards us along the streets leading from the beach -men, women and children all talking and laughing at once, dogs leaping and barking around them. . . . The locals, madly excited (I always thought the Russians were a stolid race) and continuously laughing, were pressing gifts of chocolates and cigarets...
...heroine says "mummy" and "tummy" and uses the maternal we. Other characters greet the reader with "We're doing the Saturday Review puzzle." All the men smoke pipes, which they rub against their cheeks or tap on their knees while they talk. Often they talk less like human beings than like editorials in a liberal weekly. Says Theo's lover: "We sit here in America, and across the ocean we see death and denial enmeshing a great people. For there's no use now imagining that Hitler is a temporary aberration. How long can it last...
...compelled to greet you in English, Mr. Fairbanks, since we want to be nice to you and should we greet you in Spanish you wouldn't understand...
...opinion. Willkie grinned. "Mr. President," said he, "have you heard of the first meeting of your fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, and Albert Lasker, the advertising man?" The President had not. Willkie told how Lasker traveled to Oyster Bay, how Teddy, all smiles, teeth and outstretched arms, burst in to greet him, crying out, "Mr. Lasker, I've been told that you have the master advertising mind in the country." Said Lasker hastily, "It would be presumptuous for any one to claim that, in your presence...