Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who gets well paid for opening his mouth very wide, keeps a careful record of the occasions on which he opens his mouth. By consulting his notebook, the great Dane can point to 209 Tristans, 171 Walküres, 143 Tannhäusers, 125 Siegfrieds, 101 Götterdämmerungs and Lohengrins, say when & where he sang them and how much he got paid. Says he: "I have done a quarter of a million dollars worth of Tristans since 1930. Also 3,340 English pounds, 3,200 reichsmarks, 332,000 francs, and 4,000 Danish kroner...
...conference opened, Harry Truman stood up before the delegates, a grave, grey man in a dark blue suit, and read gravely and greyly from his black looseleaf notebook: "[The eyes of the American people] are turned here in the expectation that you will furnish a broad and permanent foundation for industrial peace and progress. "Our country is worried about our industrial relations. It has a right to be. That worry is reflected in the halls of the Congress in the form of all kinds of proposed legislation. You have it in your power to stop that worry. I have supreme...
...ring notebook, a series of disconnected sentences and phrases, proved a gold mine for a French intelligence officer who found it near Berchtesgaden. He first regarded it as a mere souvenir. Then it was worked into a connected narrative, and peddled to newspapers in a dozen countries...
...occasion was moving. The diplomats and the cabinet members were there; the galleries were jammed. Stoutly controlling a trace of nervousness as he read from a big, black notebook, Harry Truman first paid eloquent tribute to his predecessor, and added...
...last week Georges Mandel spoke to France again, as rasping and unafraid as ever. On his bullet-ridden corpse had been found a packet of penciled paper scraps and a tiny notebook. Overlooked by the assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...