Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France's President Albert Lebrun and Premier Edouard Daladier went out to the B. E. F. area and lunched His Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long...
...Stalin: "You remember, little Adolf had followed the White von Ribbit into a hole. . . . He cried and cried, till there was a big pool of water, and he got so tiny that he fell in with a splash...
...back seat while BBC took off its kid gloves, permitted anti-German cracks, digs at British home policy. Comic Tommy Handley twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when...
Lowell, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, and Loverett continue to clothe their waitresses in black. Miss Murray, perennial guardian of the Union's gates, has also refused to allow herself to be swept away by a splash of color...
...just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine conning tower [unmarked] broke surface about 800 yards on the port quarter. ... A gun or explosive signal was fired. . . . The smoke from this discharge blew down over the Athenia and a distinct smell of cordite was recognized...