Word: picnicing
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...usual when victory is in the air. Winston Churchill was as jolly and prankish as a boy on a picnic. Touring the conquered Siegfried Line, the Prime Minister gaily flicked ashes on the futile, grey-green, concrete dragon's teeth which Hitler had set up to keep tanks out of the German heartland. There were hints-decently obscured by censorship-that Mr. Churchill may have expressed his contempt in even more emphatic manner...
...John Wayne, who is cinema's ablest proponent of rawhide masculinity; 2) neon-eyed Ella Raines, the most human and promising of the young sub-stars; 3) whiskey-whiskered, exuberant "Gabby" Hayes, the most expert old-timer in westerns, who looks rather like Walt Whitman endorsing picnic twist...
Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America-a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade-and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer...
Theme Song. On the Big Day, people came by foot, by train and car, by mule-drawn wagon. They sat on the courthouse lawn, opening their picnic baskets of fried chicken and cherry pie, gaping at the broadcasting equipment, listening to the seven bands parading in courthouse square and shrewdly eyeing the big-city reporters. (The newsmen lounged in a vacant building where whiskey was free...
...dinner arrangements were all through the courtesy of Miss Inglis, and the boys say they couldn't have been more delightful. Back in Cambridge, they had ham and eggs at one of the girls' homes with more dancing in stocking feet. Next week they have dates for a picnic...