Word: fainter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British were plainly no longer interested in their onetime King. This emeritus royalty was still a national embarrassment, but a fainter one. The British Embassy carefully pointed out that the Embassy dinner for the Windsors would be "medium-sized and private." The White House took this cue: the Duke and Duchess were invited only to a lunch with the President-almost the minimum courtesy permissible by diplomatic protocol. When the death of the President's brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt (see p. 17), made it necessary to cancel even this courtesy, a Presidential handshake was substituted. Their only...
...even tagged with an "Alas!" Mr. Shanks says briskly that this is a lot of nonsense: Kipling was not merely a great writer but a great political thinker, and got better & better as he went along. Less a critic than a partisan, Mr. Shanks thus arouses, in his own fainter way, echoes of the same violent feelings that Kipling himself once detonated right & left...
...Pressing. "One point, upon which he lays much stress, is the importance of our Coast Guard. His plea is, 'Protect our shores!' " Two famed victims of World War I, Aviator Quentin Roosevelt and Nurse Edith Cavell, have also advised the Spiritualists about World War II, in somewhat fainter terms. Said Pilot Roosevelt: "All will be well for those who keep their mental and spiritual balance." Nurse Cavell materialized in a seance at Fredonia, N. Y., "held up her hands and asked the blessing of God upon each one in the room and asked that we might keep...