Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly Hitler switched, graciously allowed his guest to think matters over. That night, while the old man dozed and thought, Nazi paratroopers dropped silently on dark Hungarian airfields. Before the early morning mists had lifted on Monday, March 20, German infantry motored into Hungary, deployed to seize every important rail and road center and all communications. Abruptly Budapest Radio ceased using as a theme the Rakoczi March with its impudent first line: "God of the Hungarians, destroy the German Army...
Winston Churchill pummeled his luncheon guest with questions about U.S. opinion. The answers perplexed him. Puzzled but polite, he carried on to the end, extended a limp hand to his departing guest. Back at his desk, he thumbed through a sheaf of favorite reading-brilliant, witty reports from Washington on U.S. reaction to world events. Long and frowningly he gazed at the signatures, wondered if he had been the victim of a practical joker. Orders were barked, secretaries investigated, Churchill was enlightened. The "I. Berlin" on the reports was Isaiah Berlin, economist, not Irving Berlin, guest...
When, in 1935, the San Francisco Musical Association cast about for someone to rescue the San Francisco Symphony from complete financial and artistic collapse, Monteux was suggested for the job. He was then guest-conducting at the-Hollywood Bowl. "The only difference between Toscanini and Monteux," New York Times Critic Olin Downes is reported to have remarked, "is in the waistline." San Francisco took the waistline, soon found that it surrounded one of the most sensitive, civilized, versatile and shrewdly practical men who ever wielded a baton...
...almost as if Gyp the Blood had wired that he would be a house guest. In Mexico City last week David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of Mexico's Big Three mural-ists,* revealed that he is about to visit the U.S. on the last lap of an "Art for Victory" tour of the American continents. Muralist Siqueiros (pronounced See Kay-ros), who was arrested for leading an armed attack on the Mexico City hideaway of the late Leon Trotsky which resulted in the kidnapping murder of the late Sheldon Harte, Trotsky's U.S. secretary, will visit Manhattan...
...cocktail party in his honor, a tipsy guest shouted: "Viva Trotsky!" Siqueiros looked at him blankly, murmured: "My friend, you are an optimist...