Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affectionate, voluble, energetic, terrierlike man, Hans Zinsser had a strong fondness for wine, women, horses, books. Two years ago, returning from a junket to China, he noticed that the sun on ship board turned him not healthy brown but lemon yellow. He knew then that there was something serious the matter with his blood. Back in Boston, he consulted a colleague and friend, who told him, with "affectionate abstinence from any expression of sympathy," that he had leukemia. Looking out at the white sails on the Charles River, Zinsser realized that he was going to die. A great lover...
...maestro, this was not unmixed good news. Platinum-mopped Leopold Stokowski began raising an "All American Youth Orchestra" last winter, planned also to make a South American tour-for good will. Since last spring, Stokowski has professed to be undaunted by Toscanini's rival junket, has apparently not been bothered by the prospect that South Americans, always sensitive to any sort of patronizing from the North, might be averse to the good will of a band of U. S. youngsters...
Adam was resold for about $8,000 to a British dress manufacturer named John Herbert, who shipped him to the U. S. on what he hoped would be a money-making junket. Last week Adam arrived in Manhattan, was unveiled to the U. S. public at 57th Street's Fine Arts Galleries, at 50? a peek. All indications were that, as a come-on curiosity, Adam might run a close second to John Wilkes Booth's mummy or the Cardiff giant. Said a weary gallery attendant: "It's enough to make a fella blush...
...secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey came back with fine words to say for the strong, intelligent and courageous people he had seen on his junket. He was still in the mood of his Minneapolis speech two months ago when he stepped from the train, exclaimed: "This is good Republican weather." But unlike most, Candidate Dewey had gone up the mountain in a figurative as well as a literal sense, came back pointing out to Republicans those fine houses...