Word: junketed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ilya Ehrenburg, back in Russia after a ten-week journalistic junket through the U.S. and Canada, gave Izvestia readers an outsize report on America and Americans. Highlights: "Everything . . . is different - cities, trees and customs. . . . I have been to dinners and meetings. First every body hurriedly chews chicken, then orators make long speeches, then singers sing sentimental songs, then a priest collects money for some benevolent fund. . . ." Ehrenburg said that he ran into one group of "provincial dummies . . . convinced that with the help of Esperanto they could make the atomic bomb harmless." But he had great admiration for America...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back at their bomb-nicked Cap d'Antibes chateau, royally entertained a group of U.S. reporters on an Air France publicity junket. Bubbled the New York Herald Tribune's food editor, Clementine Paddle-ford: "Two ice-filled silver buckets . . . sandwiches, one-bite big . . . again and again came the silver trays with fresh glasses of the bubbling champagne...
Erskine Caldwell, literary specialist in the po' whites, paused in a South American junket to examine Uruguay and its roulette tables. He arrived with $100 in loose change, three days later turned up in Argentina with $100 more...
Most of TIME'S editors manage to take a yearly junket or two in the U.S. or overseas to whet their working knowledge of the countries and things they write about-but not the Managing Editor. He's stuck. Among a host of other duties, he has to edit every piece of copy that goes into TIME each week (he has, he says, a basilisk's eye complicated by journalist's cataract). So it was good news to me that T. S. Matthews had gotten away for a week's trip by chartered plane...
Earl Browder also hippety-hopped homeward, from his junket to Moscow. When reservation trouble (or something) slowed him down in Britain, the Security Police put him up between hops-incommunicado...