Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they arrived-Premier Hubert Pierlot, Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, two others-they faced a King who was agitated and harassed, with tears in his eyes. Latest military reports, said the King, showed that the Belgian Army was bearing the brunt of the German attack. Behind it the British and French were already backing toward the Channel. Further resistance would not save Belgium. In his opinion, King Leopold said, the Belgian Army should withdraw from...
...when, at a musicians' party, the Stuyvesant Quartet-four NBC Symphony men-leaned on the famed Tschaikowsky Andante Cantabile. When the New Friends recorded the piece with an enlarged ensemble, they named it Droshky Drag. They retagged other classics Bach Bay Blues, Shoot the Schubert to Me, Hubert (ballet music from Rosamunde), Riffin' Raff (Cavatina by Raff). The Overture to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (he was a barber) became Barber's Hitch; Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe, Foster Chile'. Since last August, New Friends six recordings have tidily sold 20,000 copies...
Double Duty. The job of the R. A. F. in France was directed by Air Marshal-Arthur Sheridan Barratt, and his two Vice Marshals, Charles Hubert Blount (pronounced Blunt) and Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair...
...Schwante bowed himself out, prepared to leave for Germany. With half of Holland ready to go by default (see above) and with Belgium once more the anvil on which Britain and France must pound out their fears and hatred, Foreign Minister Spaak prepared to report to his chief, Premier Hubert Pierlot; to the Cabinet, which had been in session since 1 a.m.; and to grave young Leopold III, King of the Belgians, who that morning proclaimed himself, like his father before him, the active Commander in Chief of his armed forces, Belgium's second war king in 26 years...
...widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water shot 90 ft. into the air, wetting Sculptor Milles and a surrounding bevy of flower-toting ladies, everybody cheered. Conspicuously absent were Chairman Francis D. Healy and Tailor Hubert Hoef-linger, dissenting members of the Municipal Art Commission, who had long deplored Milles' sculptural nudism, had insisted that their names be removed from the plaque nakedly listing the sponsors of the venture...