Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...empire from a distance. In the past these vigils were often disturbed by the sight of an enemy and Giannini's instinct for plummeting into violent battle. But last week in Palm Beach the 75-year-old Giannini sunned his scars in peace, lazily observed the movements of lesser birds, and gazed west with a benevolent softening of his hooded eyes...
...have to return invitations") and, as a rule, refused to get into a boiled shirt. As always, he had no use for golf, gambling, the races, fishing, or "that damned gin rummy." Work was his play. He had never bothered to learn the small tricks by which lesser fry relax...
...almost two years Paladino had preached a simple discourse to his nation's harried little men. In a big-power world, he said, the lesser powers must gravitate toward the U.S. or toward the U.S.S.R. Communist partisans everywhere were working toward union with the Soviet Republics. American sympathizers everywhere should strive for incorporation with the American republic, and Italy must take the lead by becoming the 49th American State...
...soft-shelled poet seemed once again a wight that never was on sea or land. And Parson Morell (Wesley Addy) was not the man for whom Prossy would have pined or Candida gladly drudged. Candida's choosing him over Marchbanks seemed largely, last week, like choosing the lesser of two evils...
Midway in the proceedings the President left his seat in the grand ballroom, led a noisy, serpentine parade through the outer rooms where the party's lesser fry were seated. Then, after the whole crowd had jostled into the ballroom, he listened as speakers flayed the Republicans, praised Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R., the common man and themselves...