Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amiable State Department employe, Bill Nelson, had come along as friend and interpreter. Self-invited, but welcome, was the New York Post's stocky New Dealish Columnist Sam Grafton, who went along for the informative ride. But it was quick-tongued, 55-year-old Ilya Ehrenburg's junket. He asked to see, and was shown, TVA, the South's big cities, its villages & farms, a cotton plantation, a sharecropper's acreage. (Once, watching Negro field hands, he turned to Grafton, wisecracked: "Uncle Sam, meet Uncle...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...
Back home, the Daily Worker, given to glowering at Browder as an "anti-working-class intriguer," was already on the presses with its own intriguing explanation of his junket abroad. Humphed the Worker in its most Comradely gobbledygook: "The essence of the Browder trip is that it is one in a line of provocations intended to reinforce the typical reactionary falsehood that the American Communist party has organizational connections abroad...
Barbara Hutton, thrice-married* dime-store heiress, boarded a plane for a month's junket to Paris and London, explained with more candor than discernment why she would never marry again: "You can't go on being a fool forever...
McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys...