Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience, the stocky little pianist padded straight to the concert grand in the center of the stage. He sat down, arranged his tails, struck a softly impatient chord. When the chatter and applause diminished to a cathedral quiet, he began to play. People in the front rows heard him snort and grunt over sforzandos, in rollicking passages saw his blue eyes twinkle like Santa Claus's. When his program was over, he nodded his big, square head appreciatively, and trundled off stage...
...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
...Three Conferees dispersed under cover of an all but newsless fog of military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed...
...over the world. In France the Communist weekly, France Nouvelle, shrieked dutifully: "French independence seriously threatened by the dollar kings!" In the U.S., meanwhile, Henry Wallace and his political siblings continued to tell Americans about how wicked the British and French imperialists are. From Canada came a sharp, short snort of laughter. During its eager emanations of anti-Americana, Radio Moscow had recently quoted the Montreal Times as writing that U.S.-Canadian military ties were merely part of Canada's "final subservience to the U.S.A." It was true-the Montreal Times had indeed published suggestions...
Wheelhorse Snort. For the rest, speculation ranged from Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren (a close friend of Harry Truman's), to Illinois Senator Scott Lucas (geographically bad), to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (whom F.D.R. had listed alongside of Harry Truman as an acceptable running-mate in 1944). By convention time President Harry Truman would undoubtedly narrow the field to working size. Meanwhile Democratic headquarters was jubilant. Snorted one wheelhorse: "Six months ago everybody was running for President; now everyone is running for Vice President...