Word: pilsener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound up in Pilsen. In 1935, Playwright Moss Hart got the idea of taking a world cruise and writing a show (Jubilee) on the way. He broached the idea to Porter at lunch. Recalls Hart: "Cole said: 'Let's go to Cook's.' By 3 o'clock...
...their second week under Communist control, most Czechs were still numb with shock. Some nurtured a newborn hope for a new war soon. In Pilsen a Czech said to a departing American friend: "The next time you come, I hope you come in a tank." Others, by the hundreds, fled into the U.S. zone of Germany. Said one: "I never thought that Czechs would turn to Germany for refuge...
Cheering wildly, Czechs in the grandstands threw their silver cigaret lighters to the Austrians. So many gifts of butter, meat, poultry, chocolate and liquor piled in on the Axa Hotel, where the Austrians were staying, that the management turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop...
...Pilsen, smartly polished troops of our 2nd Infantry staged a review in the ancient city square for visiting Red dignitaries and soldiers who received American combat medals. Afterwards Reds and doughs with arms about one another's shoulders careened in jeeps through the Pilsen streets...
...gathering momentum for a push into Bohemia, and south of Bohemia Marshal Tolbukhin was thrusting along the Danube toward Linz. If Tolbukhin can meet the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in the Danube valley, perhaps between Linz and Regensburg, then Bohemia (and the war industries of Prague and Pilsen) will be cut off from the Nazis' Alpine bastion...