Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...length the Dictator himself proposed a toast to President Roosevelt, and added (his words translated by ex-Ambassador Oumansky): "May God help him in his task." Several Americans, unable to believe their ears, checked the translation of these words with their Russian table companions. They discovered that it was correct...
Fritz Kreisler is composing a new University of Wisconsin song. Dancer Josephine Baker, the dark-brown toast of Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week...
...those who recalled Thurman Arnold's highly seasoned attacks on sinister Nazi influences on U.S. business, the wording of Justice's victorious announcement tasted like milk toast. It went out of its way to pat Sterling on the back. It was nonetheless a victory, for the Department of Justice, for the vigorous anti-Nazi elements in Sterling's management, and for their mentor, Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, who (as Sterling's counsel) worked out the deal. It also patterned one method by which U.S. corporations can cancel German contracts without subjecting themselves to stockholders' suits...
Most hilarious chapter is about Hollywood, where at one revolutionary banquet, the high-priced cinemarxists raised their champagne glasses in a toast before bursting into "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" Most important chapter is the one on red-baiting. Lyons points out that the epithet "red-baiter," uttered in shrill tones of ethical exaltation, has a paralyzing effect on almost all liberal critics of Communism, is one of the most effective silencing tricks in the versatile Communist repertory. The Lyons recipe for overcoming it: "Walk up boldly to the terrible hobgoblin and . . . say, 'Boo!'' He warns liberals...
Shops were shuttered; the people apathetic. "The general opinion was that the South was prepared, and the North was not." The Potomac Light Infantry disbanded with the toast: "The P.L.I., invincible in peace; invisible...