Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately demonstrated a genius for bad public relations. He banned a broadcast by 160 boys & girls from the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. The press reacted as though he had burned off their heads with an acetylene torch; Congress and the Justice Department jostled each other in their rush to investigate him. He plunged on, hauled the nation's big symphony orchestras into the union, and with them artists like Iturbi, Spalding and Zimbalist. "They're mine," he cried. "What's the difference between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern...
...pitch was petulant, as usual, but the lines had the lingering quality of an old torch song at midnight. "It's never, never, never," intoned James Caesar Petrillo. "That's all there is to it." And at midnight on New Year's Eve that was all there...
...officers around me. My biggest problem is to keep them inactive. Every time I visit Montreal, I get the same question: 'Chief, when are we going to start?' " He hinted that the N.U.P. would "start" early next year. The party still has its old emblem-a torch, surrounded by maple leaves and topped by a Canadian beaver-and its motto: Serviam (I shall serve). When N.U.P. comes into the open, blue shirts presumably will again be the uniform. This time there will be no swastika shoulder patches...
...startd at 7:30 o'clock in front of Old Jawn. Led by the band, 24 torch-carriers, a Crimson bedecked Great Dane, and a vintage 1920 Buick, owned by Bill Currier '50, of Wigglesworth Hall, the procession wound through the Yard, across Massachusetts Avenue and down Holyoke Street. At the Bow Street triangle, the first casualty of the night, Dutch-tile fancier Clemens P. Woop '00, was seen limping into his sanctuary...
Listening to sultry torch songs? Bidding seven spades in Russian? This may not as the way you learn languages in high school or even at collage, but it is the way of the Modern Language Center at 5 Divinity Avenues...