Word: tasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear apart a popular song with fine abandon or imitate a female wine-taster getting drunk on the job. As an extra dividend, man & wife dance team Marge & Gower Champion foot their way featly through the hour...
...Helen, was summarily commanded to vacate her Banloc villa. Rumania's blowzy, blow-torchy Communist boss and Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, her ruddiest henchmen and Yugoslavia's Tito needed a meeting place. Tito arrived in a private train protected by 1,500 crack troops and a food-taster. The servants in the villa were locked up to insure privacy, and for four days (while Rumania's top Communists rustled their own food and made their own beds) the policymakers discussed Queen Helen's son Michael...
Today Trujillo would like to be a gentleman of ease, and loved by all, but time has infected him with the same terror he has spread. He wears a bulletproof vest, keeps his own food taster, and dines only in his own home. He arrives at diplomatic banquets after dinner is over, bringing three bottles of his own Carlos I brandy, from which the corks must be removed before his eyes, and from which he drinks only after others have drunk first...
...make the shrimp test," was the way General George C. Marshall's wife, Katherine, described one of her social duties. At parties she serves the Secretary of State as a sort of poison-taster, she explained. Anything with shrimp in it makes him pass out cold...
...back-century anecdotes from the days of Buffalo Bill, Jack Dempsey, and Paul Whiteman, homely philosophy, and innumerable references to unimportant and only occasionally interesting friends and relatives of the author. It is full of phrases like this one: "I have never again heard from the crudite tea-taster, and what became of him I do not know. The busy years find us neglectful of those wise counselors who influenced our early lives." A gentle tear for the boys I left behind me. There is wit in "Solo in Tom-Toms," but the memoirs of a lesser journalist, though perhaps...