Word: whims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiepura, star of the Manhattan revival of The Merry Widow, as a patriotic whim sings an out-of-show Polish folk song in the middle of the performance. When a visiting Polish Pestka (WAC) was moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover-Herbert Hoover...
Fate. No mere whim but something more like destiny had whisked the Generals from Cairo to the arid heart of the Middle East. Aboard the transport they had stowed 3,000 lb. of pretty things: automatic rifles, ammunition, blowtorches, helmets, other samples of freshly arrived Lend-Lease for Ibn Saud...
...Whim of Iron. "What Forster wants to know about the human heart must be caught by surprise, by what he calls the 'relaxed will,' and if not everything can be caught in this way, what is so caught cannot be caught in any other way. Rigor will not do. Forster teases his medium and plays with his genre. He scorns the fetish of 'adequate motivation,' delights in surprise and melodrama and has a kind of addiction to sudden death." He has, says Trilling, "a whim of iron." And "to accept Forster we have to know that...
...program that lacks a sponsor. They'll shove in, instead, something else unsponsored, like "recorded interludes," movie gossip, or E. B. Rideout. If they sell the time, all well and good, but too often a perfectly good program will be shoved off the air at the drop of a whim. It isn't only swing music that suffers, either...
Author Ormsbee's hero is Abner Coe, an American who is forced to join the French in the Maginot Line through the accident of having been born in Paris. In civilian days Abner was a music critic, bedding down when the whim took him with a lady newspaper correspondent...