Word: merrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler's favorite stage entertainments is Franz Lehar's light opera, The Merry Widow. Last week in Munich the Fuhrer decided that he would like The Merry Widow a little merrier. A telegram was sent to Cannes where lissome, long-limbed Marion Daniels was doing an acrobatic tap dance turn at the Casino. A special plane followed, rushed the blonde 19-year-old Californian to Munich's Gärtnerplatz Theatre where she gave a few new twists and taps to The Merry Widow's, Viennese waltzes...
...this demotion toward the merrier but less distinguished end of the toast list, Manuel Quezon maintained a dignified silence. But the Filipino-owned Philippines Herald angrily took up his cause, snorted: ''A diplomatic crisis is brewing. Commonwealth dignitaries may decline to attend consular parties. . . . Used to high-riding the political prairies of Indiana with State troops at his beck, McNutt must feel suffocated in the close quarters the Philippine Independence Act allows him. If he conceives it his duty to enlarge American authority in the Philippines despite growing Filipino autonomy, he is certain to encounter difficulties...
...desert near Assiut, rebelled because they received only $1.50 per month for pocket money. Bearded Auba Yoanes XIX, Patriarch of Egypt's ancient Coptic Church, excommunicated the seven, then pardoned them while their abbot raised their allowance to $7.50 per month. On this the monks grew merrier & merrier, saving up their money for uproarious nights in nearby Bedouin and Moslem villages. Such a nuisance became the Copts that the villagers told Abbot Sidarous to keep his men at home, else they would be shot...
...glad to buy cheap. Russia's present or Second Five-Year-Plan was to use the Economic Base established by the First Five-Year-Plan to make what Russians personally want and Joseph Stalin has plastered the country with slogans reading: "Life is getting better! Life is getting merrier!" Last week the Soviet official chiefly responsible for fulfilling the current plan, Commissar of Light Industry I. E. Lubimov, got sore...
...carry more than her just share of At Home Abroad, Comedienne Lillie demonstrates the full extent of her resource and range by thrice repeating, with unimportant changes of scene and material, her most famed characterization: the ludicrous femme fatale. First a Parisian music hall favorite ("l'amour, the merrier"), then a temperamental ballerina with painful recollections of her flight from Russia ("You can't teach an old dog new treks"), she tops the lot as a light lady of Vienna with this lyrical self-analysis...