Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Leader Franz Neumann, noted that it was Bastille Day. The British translator, picking up Neumann's words, sentence by sentence, intoned: "And on this great French holiday in Berlin we honor the ideals of Fraternity, Equality and . . ."The audience roared as the harassed translator appealed in a whisper to Neumann for the third word. Neumann gave fire to the worn phrase by shouting in German: "We here in Berlin know what it is! Liberty...
Buying a Day. Sitting down with an author, Editor Allen will whisper soothingly ("But I can't do this to you . . . What a shame to lose this . . ."). Before the author knows it, Allen has slashed and re-arranged the manuscript. A successful author himself (Only Yesterday, a history of the '20s, sold 750,000 copies), Allen scrupulously tots up office hours spent on his own writing, then "buys a day" (i.e., deducts it from his salary). Fred and his wife Agnes (a Reader's Digest editor) collaborated on the between-the-wars picture-history, I Remember Distinctly...
Strained Relations."Now, right enough, the police had made a dab at me in 1939, but I had got a whisper and had just time to sidestep. It was this way. The British King & Queen took it into their heads to visit the U.S. while I was still there, and the American police, having learned of the strained relations between our two houses on account of what happened to Hugh [an O'Donnell defeated by the British at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601], were anxious to have a word with me." Peadar sought...
...middle of the Handel Concerto Grosso in B-Flat, which opened the concert by the Chamber Orchestra last night, the gentleman sitting behind me remarked in a loud whisper, "You really can't beat the Classics for beauty!" I cannot help agreeing with him, particularly when the works of Handel, Bach, and Mozart are performed as competently as they were then...
Once having discovered these two facts to be true, however, the Council seems promptly to have ignored them. For only just now--as the term draws almost to its close--are the most rudimentary preparations for the '49 Album beginning. And there has not yet been a whisper of planning for a Temporary Album Committee for the Class of 1950. Perhaps it is asking too much for the Council to begin acting on its own plans in so short a time after they have been published (a mere two months). But then perhaps it might be wiser if the Council...