Word: touts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides his enthusiasm for Isabel and sculpture, Lachaise had another: books about the North Pole. Said Poet E. E. Cummings, who was among the first to tout Lachaise: "There is one thing Lachaise would rather do than anything else, and that is to experience the bignesses and whitenesses, and silences of the polar regions . . . to negate the myriad with the single, to annihilate the complicatednesses and prettinesses and trivialities of Southern civilizations with the enormous, the solitary, the fundamental...
...tout's secret that U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, as "personal representative" of President Truman, had formally offered to turn over to U.N. the Army's 2½-sq.-mi. Presidio, perched spectacularly above San Francisco Bay. But Russia's Georgi Saksin promptly demanded that San Francisco be barred from the track...
Shouting, "Tout pour le front lopulaire -everything for the lopular front!" 10,000 exuberant conspirators converged on the square before their favorite Tav-erne du Pantheon, known as the Lopo-drome. Police barred their way. Undaunted, singing their battle hymn, "Lop, lop, lop lop lop, lop lop lop. . . ." (to the tune of Stars & Stripes Forever), they marched into the nearby Salle des Societes Savantes...
...Maitre spoke again: "Tomorrow I shall be called to power." The crowd responded: . "Tonight, tonight!" Lop re plied: "Eh bien, tonight!" The crowd screamed: "Tout de suite, tout de suite!" Then they charged out on the streets...
Amid all this bustle, it remained for a 23-year-old U.S. musicomedy to attract, fortnight ago, the season's glossiest first-night audience and its loudest cheers. Tout Paris-Marlene Dietrich, Mistinguett, Jean Gabin, Lucien Lelong, many another-swarmed to No, No, Nanette, stayed on for 18 curtain calls...