Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calls himself "Old Earl," gets up as early as 5:30 in the morning to let visitors wander into the governor's mansion. He appoints "colonels" with a lavish hand (some 250 to date) and presents lesser fry with penknives-after first exacting a penny so "a friendship won't be cut." He enjoys the feel of clean white suits, but he never allows his interest in the finer things to interfere with a certain honest vulgarity. On the day after he was elected governor, he asked friends to his house, spread out a copy of the anti...
...true the [Yugoslav] government decided that [lesser officials] did not have the right to give important information to anyone . . . All our clerks . . . gave various people state economic secrets which could and sometimes did fall into the hands of our common enemies . . . To obtain such information, Soviet people should go higher, that is to the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Yugoslav government . . . From all this it can be seen that the above reasons are not the real cause for the measure now taken by the Soviet government and it is our desire that the U.S.S.R. openly inform us what the matter...
Some studios smiled through their tears and hastily applauded the FCC proposal. NBC, which runs the big Truth or Consequences (its Miss Hush prizes amounted to more than $21,000) and nine lesser quiz-bangs, primly pointed to its own "longstanding policy of stressing the entertainment, educational and news values of its programs . . ." WOR, key station for Mutual, another leader in the giveaway field (Queen for a Day, Three for the Money), solemnly assented: "The giveaway craze and large prizes have begun to overshadow the entertainment value of programs. Such overemphasis is not healthy for radio...
...Harold Blumenfeld, when the Hearst papers' Picture Boss Dick Sarno walked into the basement office, waving a flag of truce. Would it be O.K. if William Randolph Hearst Jr. came down to see how Acme was doing it? A few minutes later, young Hearst and a flock of lesser Hearstlings came in for a guided tour...
...antics as "buzzing" the mills in a plane. Not unhappily, Elliott went back to Paris, had his ulcered stomach fitted out with an artificial duodenum, started writing. His sardonic War Birds helped start the cycle of wartime aviation books in the late '20s. Springs followed it with nine lesser stories (e.g., Leave Me with a Smile, Who Steals My Pants Steals Trash), which brought a total of $250,000 from such magazines as McClure's, and as bestsellers and scenarios...