Word: broadcaster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...afternoon last week in Washington, tremulous, treble voices poured into a midget microphone and around the world. Forty-one children of foreign diplomats, attending a Christmas party in the Hall of Nations at the Washington Hotel, joined in the annual broadcast. A few of these diplo-moppets were panic-stricken, but most stepped up with little prompting and rattled off their Christmas pieces, twice-once in their native tongue, once in English...
...British Royal Family, who always observe Christmas with great simplicity - the royal Princesses have never had a Christmas tree and did not have one last week-rusticated quietly at a place kept rigidly secret lest Nazi airmen bomb George VI while the King was reading his scheduled Christmas broadcast. This year British Broadcasting Corp. titled its annual program Christmas Under Fire, scheduled Welsh workers singing in a factory, an Army choir in the Holy Land and a broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would...
...have assumed the Office of Chief of State, set up a Fascist regime under the wing of Nazi Germany, and declared war on Great Britain. Whether or not this story had any substance of truth, Pierre Laval immediately became a pariah to the Government of France. Marshal Pétain broadcast a curt, messianic message to his people...
Italian anger at Italians had grown so violent that there was little vigor left to damn the British. Example (from an Italian broadcast): "The Italian is a light-hearted and easygoing fellow until he is aroused. . . . The British ought to remember this...
...came off last night in the Crimson network studios when Ann Corio, queen of strip-tease artists, was interviewed in the final broadcast of the year...