Word: hoi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving Portland last week, Mayor Riley was unabashed by his mission. Said he: "I'm going to talk to everyone, from the hoi polloi on down. . . . I've got one helluva responsibility ahead...
...Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...
...highbrows' loss is the hoi-polloi's gain, for inside the binding is a fascinating tale, expertly handled by a young writer who shows himself to be a master of psychological study. In addition, Clark catches the true flavor of his setting. No drug-store cowboy, the author completely revolutionizes the Zane Grey tradition of the Western novel in which men are mangled and women wangled...
Married. Vivien Leigh, 26, cinemactress; and Laurence Olivier, 33, cinemactor; in Santa Barbara, Calif.; four days after British Barrister Herbert Leigh Hoi-man's divorce from Miss Leigh became final, 25 days after British Actress Jill Esmond obtained an absolute decree from Olivier...