Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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clinker-a bad or sour musical note...
...TIME [May 21] said, University of Chicago's President Hutchins has sounded the first note of an argument about which we shall (unfortunately) hear more. . . . While the world is still reeling from the full story of the almost incomprehensible savageries perpetrated upon mankind by the German nation, he is the first to blossom out again with the once-fashionable foppery of coddling criminals...
There was also one ominous note. In the Rue d'Aboukir, the heart of Paris' Jewish business district, knots of former slave laborers from Germany raised the ugly Nazi cry: "A bas les Juifs!"-Down with the Jews...
...Buckingham Palace, he was delighted at the way Queen Victoria sang his songs ". . . beautifully in tune . . . and with very nice expression. Only where ... it goes down to D and then comes up again . . . she sang D-sharp each time; and because the first two times I gave her the note, the last time, sure enough, she sang D-where it ought to have been D-sharp. But except for this ... it was really charming...
...work of Norman Corwin, Columbia's boy wonder, whose radio scripts draw down ecstatic fan mail, are frequently rebroadcast, even attain the comparative immortality of book publication (13 by Corwin; More by Corwin). Last week Corwin did it again. His full-hour V-E day program, On a Note of Triumph, had a Sunday repeat performance, and in book form, without too much ballyhoo, was selling so fast that Publishers Simon & Schuster rushed out a second printing of 25,000 copies...