Word: picnic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...passenger trains on Italian lines were canceled last week, presumably to make way for war transport of Hitler's forces. But for Hitler, going to Italy's aid was no picnic. If he did, he might find himself fighting a war on two fronts-the disadvantage which he has been most eager to avoid...
...there was anything she'd overlooked. When sponsors complained about her methods, she told her listeners all about it, brought a deluge of letters to support her. Eager to prevent even "one teeny white lie" from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink she was plugging, advised her listeners next day that she hadn't discovered a bottle of the stuff in any lunch basket she had examined. To offset such commercial gaucheries, Miss McBride made a point of eating products while discussing them...
...Italian Army is regarded by military men the world over with emotion ranging from contempt to hilarity-almost nowhere with admiration. But this was the first real test. Ethiopia, a war against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...
...their 21-engagement South American tour, Conductor Stokowski's youths had downed a widespread impression that their brash, inexperienced good will would "insult" musically sophisticated South Americans. The orchestra played to full houses nearly everywhere. The tour was no picnic for the players, as most of their spare time was spent rehearsing. Stokowski, who took no salary for the tour, complained that enthusiastic South Americans had mobbed him for souvenirs-coat buttons, handkerchiefs, gloves. Only time he lost the Stokowski temper was in Montevideo, where the program carried a biography stating the old libel that his real name...
...regularly from babyhood. "As a child, she was a favorite with the 'across-the-tracks' gang of boys and girls. They fought with rocks, knives and sometimes with pistols. At 14 she saw a boy badly stabbed by another in an argument over her at a school picnic. She married at 16. and had a fist-and-chair fight with her husband the first time she saw him after their marriage...