Word: borscht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kids who worship the pliers and the screwdriver rather than the hammer & sickle. And that's us-not them. . . . Don't go telling me they're going to drop an atom bomb on my home. They'll first have to learn the difference between borscht and lubricating...
...Critics' Circle Award, made the reputations of Gene Kelly and William Bendix and the fortune of William Saroyan. With Julie Haydon the only holdover from the original cast, it's still a very good play. Characters like the Arab and Nick and McCarthy are indestructible, even on the borscht circuit. Regardless of who asks it, "Did you ever fall in love with a 39 pound midget?" will always be a funny line...
Nothing to Bang with. The delegates themselves were remarkably harried and human. Even the Russians seemed less than inscrutable when they were discovered cooking borscht on electric plates in their rooms at the Plaza. And there was something comforting about hearing the world's great men blowing their noses over national radio hookups. UNO's microphones picked up all sorts of odd dialogue. At one point a female whispered urgently: "When you are ready, bang and get them out." Just as urgently, Council Chairman Dr. Quo Tai-chi of China replied: "I haven't got anything...
Russian-born William Schneiderman came to the U.S. when he was three, sucked in Marxist pap with his borscht, became a Communist when he was 17, kept mum about it when he was naturalized in 1927 (at 21), eventually became Communist state secretary for California. In 1940, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco revoked his citizenship, holding that he had "obtained his certificate of citizenship illegally" because he failed to reveal that he belonged to a party which "advised, advocated and taught the overthrow of the Government by force and violence." Communist Schneiderman enlisted the aid of Wendell Willkie...
...year-old Danny Kaye didn't get into show business until he'd been bounced as a soda-jerker for giving his friends free drinks, bounced as an insur ance clerk for making a $40,000 mistake on the books. Then he got a start on the Borscht Circuit in the Catskills, hopped off for Siam and Singapore in a vaudeville act, stayed in the small time until he met his wife. She contrived for him dizzy skits that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious. A wow with them at Manhattan...